K.JUL.  Gi><lJ»^. 


AN  ACCOUNT 


MEETIIGS  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1849 


YALE     COLLEGE, 


TO&ETHER   WITH   THE 


SECRETARY'S      REPORT 


PRESENTED   JULY  28,  1852. 


PUBLISHED     BY     ORDER     OF     THE     CLASS. 


NEW  HAVEN: 

J.      H.      BENHAM,      PRINTER. 

1852, 


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YALE. 


CLASS    OE    1849 


,  The  Class  of  1849  met,  for  the  first  time  after  graduation,  on  the 
College  grounds,  at  6  1-2  o'clock,  P.  M.,  August  16th,  1849,  imme- 
diately upon  the  closing  of  the  Commencement  exercises.  Morris 
was  called  to  preside,  and,  after  the  unanimous  election  of  Timothy 
Dwight  as  Class  Secretary,  and  a  resolution  to  meet  in  this  city  three 
years  from  that  time,  at  the  Commencement  season,  in  the  year  1852 
the  meeting  adjourned  with  parting  cheers  for  the  Class,  and  the  giv- 
ing each  to  each  of  the  parting  word. 

On  the  15th  of  August,  1850,  forty-seven  of  the  graduated  members 

of  the  Class  being  in  town,  it  was  thought  desirable  that  they  should 

assemble  together,  and  accordingly,  at  10  o'clock,  A.  M.,  of  that  day, 

thirty-seven  met  in  the  Hall  of  the  Brothers'  Society.     Mr.  Fisk  was 

called  to  the  chair.     The  meeting  was  occupied  mostly  with  business 

<  '     not  important  to  be   mentioned  here,  excepting  so  far  as  regards  a 

'^=      movement  originated  by  Mr.  Hurlbut,  on  behalf  of  the  Editors  of  the 

^      Yale  Literary  Magazine,  for  the  purpose  of  relieving  them  from  the 

^      debt,  with  which  they  were  burdened  at  their  graduation,  and  which 

-^       resulted  in  the  payment  of  $75.00,  mostly  from  the  members  who 

were  present ;  a  sum  with  which  the  Editors  expressed  themselves 

satisfied. 

,  '  On  the  31st  of  July,  1851,  twenty-five  members  of  the  Class  as- 

\        sembled  again  at  the  same  place,  (there  being  three  others  in  town, 

but  not  present  at  the  meeting.)      The  meeting  was  similar  in  its 

^ "t    character  to   the  one   which  was  held  the    preceding  year.       Mr. 

Waring  was  the  presiding  officer.     After  the  reading  of  the  Secreta- 


4  CLASS      MEETINGS. 

ly's  report,  Messrs.  Fisk,  Waring  and  Brandegee  were  selected  as  a 
Committee  to  provide  a  supper  for  the  triennial  meeting,  the  Class 
being  well  assured  from  past  experience,  that,  having  intrusted  their 
interests  to  the  hands  of  such  persons,  there  was  no  danger  that  the 
physical  nature  would  suffer  want  upon  that  occasion.  To  this  Com- 
mittee also  was  assigned  the  purchase  of  the  Silver  Cup, — inasmuch 
as  it  was  ascertained  that  there  were  already  two  candidates  for  this 
honor  presented  by  Messrs.  Henson  and  Gordon.  Messrs.  Wood- 
ruff, Fisk  and  Dwight,  were  appointed  a  Committee  on  the  subject  of 
procuring  an  index  for  the  Daguerreotypes,  which  were  taken  of  the 
Class  previous  to  their  graduation,  and  which  had  been  deposited  in 
the  College  Library. 

Attention  was  also  called  at  this  meeting,  to  the  first  death,  in  which 
the  Class,  as  it  graduated,  was  especially  interested, — that  of  Mrs. 
Caroline  S.  Gordon,  who  died  at  Fairfield,  Ct.,  on  Wednesday,  July 
16th.  1851,  at  the  age  of  eighteen  years  and  ten  months.  She  had 
been  married  at  the  same  place,  on  the  5th  of  June,  in  the  preceding 
year.  A  brief  and  simple  expression  of  sympathy  was  immediately 
presented,  and  the  Secretary  was  directed  to  communicate  it  to  Mr. 
Gordon,  in  the  name  of  each  and  every  member  who  was  present ; 
a  melancholy  office,  which  he  endeavored  afterwards  to  perform,  with 
the  hope  that  he  himself  and  all  might  remember  that  our  own  num- 
ber must  very  soon  be  diminished  by  the  departure  of  some  one  to  the 
world  of  spirits,  and  with  the  earnest  prayer  that  that  one  might  be 
"  not  lost,  but  gone  before,"  to  a  brighter  world,  to  begin  the  unbro- 
ken circle  there. 

The  meeting  then  adjourned — each  person  present  pledging  him- 
self to  be  present  at  the  next  meeting,  and  likewise  to  see  that  every 
other  member  of  the  Class  should  then  return  to  visit  the  scenes  of 
College  days. 

We  now  come  to  the  triennial  gathering  at  the  recent  Commence- 
ment. On  Wednesday,  July  28,  1852,  a  large  number  of  the  Class 
met,  upon  notice  by  the  Secretary,  at  12  o'clock,  M.,  in  the  Theolog- 
ical Lecture  Room  under  the  Trumbull  Gallery.  At  the  suggestion 
of  the  Secretary,  Charles  G.  Came  was  appointed  the  Chairman  of 
the  meeting,  and  also  to  preside  at  the  ceremonies  in  the  evening. 
The  Committee  upon  the  supper  and  the  Silver  Cup  being  called 
upon,  reported  through  their  chairman,  Mr.  Fisk,  who  stated  that  the 
Class  were  invited  to  assemble  at  the  New  Haven  Hotel,  at  10  o'clock 


GLASSMEE  TINGS.  5 

P.  M.  He  also  stated  that  the  Silver  Cup  had  been  purchased  by  the 
Committee,  but  as  a  doubt  existed  in  the  minds  of  some  members  of 
the  Class,  as  to  who  was  entitled  to  it,  he  wished  the  opinions  of  those 
present  upon  that  subject.  Mr.  Dwight  was  called  on  to  state  the 
votes  and  facts  in  the  case.  The  Secretary  said  that  no  vote  had 
ever  been  taken  on  the  subject,  but  that  his  understanding,  and  he 
presumed  that  of  most  of  the  Class,  had  always  been  that  the  Cup  was 
to  be  given  to  the  first  son.  This  he  believed  to  have  been  the  cus- 
tom with  preceding  Classes,  except  the  Class  of  1848,  which  had 
passed  a  distinct  resolution  to  bestow  this  honor  upon  the  first  child. 
The  facts  in  the  case  were  briefly  these  :  Mr.  Henson  had  a  daugh- 
ter, born  on  the  27th  of  June,  1850  ;  Mr.  Gordon  a  son,  on  the  16th 
of  July,  1851.  Of  course,  if  the  first  child  was  to  receive  the  gift, 
Mr.  Henson  was  without  question  entitled  to  it,  but  if  it  was  to  be 
presented  to  the  first  son,  Mr.  Gordon's  claims  were  equally  undoubt- 
ed. After  some  further  remarks  from  several  members  of  the  Class, 
especially  from  Mr.  Hutchins,  who  strongly  urged  the  claims  of  John 
Hopkins,  of  South  College  memory, — it  was  decided  by  a  nearly 
unanimous  vote  to  give  the  Cup  to  Mr.  Gordon,  for  his  son. 

A  report  was  also  given  by  Mr.  Woodruff,  in  respect  to  the  Da- 
guerreotypes, stating  that  he  had  obtained  the  proposed  index,  and 
had  had  them  arranged  in  alphabetical  order,  and  that  he  had  commu- 
nicated with  those  whose  faces  were  not  to  be  found  in  the  number, 
but  had  not  yet  been  able  to  procure  them.  This  had  been  done  at 
an  expense  often  dollars.  The  Secretary  was  requested  lo  estimate 
the  necessary  expenses  of  the  Class,  and  to  assess  accordingly,  at  the 
next  meeting.  The  Class  then  adjourned  to  meet  at  the  same  place 
at  9  1-2  P.  M.,  to  proceed  thence  to  the  Hotel. 

Wednesday  Evening.  The  Class  met,  pursuant  to  adjournment,  at 
the  Trumbull  Gallery,  and  at  ten  o'clock  took  their  course  in  proces- 
sion to  the  New  Haven  Hotel,  where,  after  a  few  moments  delay,  they 
found  supper  prepared.  Mr.  Came  was  invited  to  the  chair — having 
on  his  right  hand  the  Secretary,  and  the  Chairman  of  the  Supper  Com- 
mittee on  his  left :  rather  an  unfortunate  position  as  some  of  his  class- 
mates might  think.  In  a  few  moments  all  were  gathered  around  the 
table,  and,  after  blessing  had  been  asked  by  the  Rev.  Edward  D. 
Morris,  the  gentlemen  present,  fifty-seven  in  all,  including  Mr.  Ludden 
of  the  Class  of  1850,  who  was  an  invited  guest,  began  to  do  justice 
to  the  eatables  placed  before  them.     The  following  are  the  names  of 


6  CLASSMEE  TINGS. 

those  who  were  at  the  meeting  : — Messrs.  Arnold,  Atkins,  Bannan, 
H.  Barnard,  R.  P.  Barnard,  Benedict,  Bishop,  Bisseli,  Bradley, 
Brandegee,  Brent,  Buck,  Bull,  Came,  Chandler,  W.  B.  Clarke, 
Couper,  Durkee,  Dwight,  Eliot,  Fenn,  Finch,  Fisk,  Galpin,  Gordon, 
Green,  Hanes,  Harrison,  Henson,  Hollister,  Hough,  Hubbard,  Hurl- 
but,  Hutchins,  Jessup,  Kirby,  Lee,  Lockwood,  Mitchell,  Moore, 
Morris,  North,  Oakey,  Peck,  Peters,  Robinson,  Rowell,  Skinner, 
Talbot,  Upson,  Walker,  Ward,  Waring,  Wilson,  Wodell  and  Wood- 
ruff.  Mr.  J.  L.  Willard  was  also  in  town,  but  was  absent  on  account 
of  sickness.  It  may  not  be  uninteresting  to  mention  here,  that,  at  the 
gathering  in  1850,  there  were  present,  or  in  town,  twelve  members 
of  the  Class,  who  were  not  in  New  Haven  at  our  triennial  meeting, 
namely — Messrs.  Barnes,  Beecher,  Bourne,  Colegrove,  Douglas, 
Goodrich,  Hall,  Haskell,  Miles,  Poole,  Starr  and  J.  Willard,  and  in 
1851,  Mr.  Murray,  making  seventy  in  all,  who  have  been  present  at 
some  season  of  re-union  since  our  graduation.  As  the  Secretary,  as 
might  naturally  be  expected  by  all  who  know  him,  concluded  his  re- 
past some  time  bef  )re  the  rest,  the  exercises  were  pleasantly  varied 
by  his  calling  on  each  member  for  $1.25,  for  the  purpose  of  paying 
for  the  publication  of  the  Class  Report,  &c.,  &c.,  a  sum  which  was 
paid  with  a  great  deal  of  delight  apparently  by  all,  so  much  so  that 
Mr.  Ives,  the  good  proprietor,  followed  the  Secretary's  example  a  few 
moments  afterwards,  and  found  "  forty-nine,"  as  usual,  ready  for  every 
good  deed. 

After  the  wants  of  the  animal  nature  had  been  attended  to,  Messrs. 
Woodruff,  Ludden,  Lockwood  and  Hough,  favored  the  meeting  with 
the  following  song,  written  for  the  occasion  by  Mr.  Finch,  who  was 
also  the  author  of  the  other  two  songs,  which  will  be  referred  to  here- 
after : 

SONG. 

(Am. — "  Lutzow's  Wild  Hunt.") 

Af  the  soldier  returns,  when  the  battle  is  o'er, 
To  ths  hamlet  that  nourished  and  armed  him. 

As  the  sailor  hies  home  from  the  billow-lined  shore 
To  the  eye  that  enchanted  and  charmed  him. 

Gaily  we  gather  from  hill  and  dale, 

'Neath  the  elm-tree  domes  of  our  beautiful  Yale. 


CLASS       MEETINGS.  7 

From  the  land  of  the  mountain,  the  vale  of  the  vine. 
From  the  prairie  and  storm-fiirrowed  ocean. 

From  the  far-leaping  torrent  and  gold-flashing  mine, 
Unchanged  in  our  boyish  devotion. 

Gaily  we  gather  from  hill  and  vale, 

'Neath  the  elm-tree  domes  of  our  beautiful  Yale. 

With  a  smile  for  the  rock  and  the  sun-tinted  bay. 

For  the  lawn  with  its  carpet  of  beauty. 
For  the  silent  old  walls,  moss-covered  and  gray. 

Where  we  mingled  pure  pleasure  and  duty, 
Gaily  we  gather  from  hill  and  vale, 
'Neath  the  elm-tree  domes  of  our  beautiful  Yale. 

Thus  ever  amid  the  wild  tempests  of  life. 
When  the  soul  is  o'ershadowed  with  sorrow, 

In  calm  and  in  storm — in  silence  and  strife— 
When  fortune  gilds  brightly  the  morrow. 

May  our  hearts  all  gather  from  hill  and  vale, 

'Neath  the  elm-tree  domes  of  our  beautiful  Yale. 

The  Secretary  then  read  the  record  of  the  last  annual  meeting, 
which  was  accepted.  He  then  rose  and  presented  his  Report  of  the 
past  three  years.  This  Report  has,  for  reasons  which  will  be  obvious, 
been  here  placed  at  the  end  of  this  account  of  the  Class-meetings. 

After  the  reading  of  the  Secretary's  Report,  which  occupied  nearly 
three-quarters  of  an  hour,  cheers  were  proposed  for  his  benefit,  and 
it  was  moved  that  an  expression  of  the  thanks  of  the  Class  be  pre- 
sented him  for  his  past  services,  and  that  he  be  requested  to  continue 
in  the  same  office  in  future,  which  motion  was  carried  without  any  dis- 
senting voice,  and  the  cheers  were  accordingly  given,  somewhat, 
doubtless,  to  the  discomfort  of  the  goodly  strangers  who  were  en- 
deavoring to  sleep  in  the  rooms  above. 

The  gentlemen  previously  mentioned  then  gave  us  a  song,  which 
introduced  the  names  and  some  of  the  peculiarities  of  each  member 
of  the  Class,  whether  present  or  absent,  but  which,  for  this  reason,  it 
has  been  thought  improper  to  insert  where  it  might  fall  under  the  no- 
tice of  others  besides  the  friends  of '49. 

The  presentation  of  the  Silver  Cup  was  next  called  for,  and  Mr. 
Waring,  as  one  of  the  Committee  on  that  subject,  rose,  and  with  a 
few  words  of  congratulation,  offered  the  cup  to  Mr.  Gordon,  bearing 
the  following  inscription  ;— "  To  George  S.  Gordon — from  the  Class- 
mates of  his  father— July  28,  1852,"-— and  below—"  Class  of  1849." 


8  CLASSMEETINGS. 

Mr.  Gordon  replied  briefly,  expressing  his  thanks  in  behalf  of  the 
youthful  representative  of  the  next  generation,  and  closing  with  the 
following  sentiment : —  "  The  first  daughter  of  the  Class  of  '49 — 
Though  the  letters  of  her  name,  which  would  have  graced  this  cup, 
have  by  a  trick  of  the  mail  (male)  miscarried^  may  she  in  life  reach  a 
happy  destination."  Mr.  Henson  was  then  called  upon  to  express 
his  sentiments  upon  the  occasion,  but  was  found  to  have  left  the  room. 

This  ceremony  being  finished,  the  roll  was  called,  and  every  mem- 
ber of  the  Class  who  was  present  gave  an  account  of  his  life  since 
leaving  college,  and  declared  his  strong  attachment  to  the  Class  of 
1849.  A  tone  of  deep  feeling  and  solemnity  pervaded  the  meeting, 
especially  as  some  alluded  to  the  changes  which  had  come  over  their 
views  and  course  of  life  since  graduation,  as  the  hopes  and  aims  of  the 
Christian  had  dawned  upon  them,  and  as  others  brought  before  their 
Classmates  the  dark  scenes  of  trial  and  affliction  through  which  they  had 
passed,  during  the  three  years  which  were  just  drawing  to  their  close. 
Each  member  seemed  to  feel  that,  by  wonderful  mercy  on  the  part 
of  a  kind  Providence,  we  had  been  permitted  to  assemble  once  more 
at  old  Yale,  and  that  soon  death  must  call  for  some  of  us — for  many, 
doubtless,  before  we  should  meet  again. 

When  all  had  answered  to  their  names,  and  those  gentlemen  who 
had  begun  to  experience  the  joys  of  connubial  bliss,  had  generously 
invited  all  their  classmates  to  visit  them  at  their  own  homes,  as  they 
passed  from  place  to  place,  where  they  might  chance  to  reside,  the 
following  closing  song  was  sung,  the  chorus  being  united  in  by  all 
the  Class,  with  an  earnestness  which  reminded  us  of  our  undergradu- 
ate days  : 

SONG. 
(Am — Auld  Lang  Syne.) 

The  praises  of  our  noble  class. 

This  eve  we  gaily  sing. 
While  swift  the  cheerful  moments  pass. 

And  social  pleasures  bring. 

The  Class  of "  Forty-Nine,"  my  boys, 

The  Class  of  "  Forty-Nine," 
Proud,  pleasant  memories  round  it  cling, 
'The  Class  of  "  Forty-Nine." 


CLASS     MEETINGS. 

When  we  were  "  Fresh,"  we  whipped  the  "  Sophs," 

Upon  the  foot-ball  ground, 
Despite  their  taunting  sneers  and  scoffs. 
And  words  of  empty  sound. 

The  Class  of"  Forty-Nine,"  my  boys. 

The  Class  of  "  Forty-Nine," 
Proud,  pleasant  memories  cling  around 
The  Class  of"  Forty-Nine." 

And  whdn  old  EucUd  slept  in  death,* 

Though  tutors  warning  gave. 
And  wasted  much  forbidding  breath, 
We  bore  him  to  his  grave. 

The  Class  of "  Forty-Nine,"  my  boys, 

The  Class  of"  Forty-Nine," 
Proud,  pleasant  memories  round  it  wreath, 
The  Class  of  "  Forty- Nine." 

We  courted  all  the  city  girls. 

We  made  them  wedding  vows, 
We  toyed  four  years  with  glossy  curls. 

Then  made  our  parting  bows. 

The  Class  of  "  Forty-Nine,"  my  boys, 
The  Class  of"  Forty-Nine," 

A  bird-like  memory  round  it  whirls. 
The  Class  of  "  Forty-Nine." 

The  dragons,  throned  in  boarding  schools. 

Looked  on  us  with  disdain. 
We  kissed  their  pupils,  broke  their  rules. 
They  veiled  their  maids  in  vain. 

The  Class  of  "  Forty-Nine,"  my  boys. 

The  Class  of  "  Forty- Nine," 

We  ne'er  shall  see  its  like  again. 

The  Class  of"  Forty-Nine. 

We  shouldered  many  a  barber's  pole, 

We  tolled  the  College  bell. 
Till  Freshmen  to  the  Chapel  stole, 

And  found  an  empty  shell. 


*  The  Secretary  would  remark  here,  that  hi3  well-known  musical  powers  suddenly  fail- 
ed him  as  this  verse  was  sung.  The  reason  of  the  phenomenon  he  must  leave  others  to  decide 
upon.    The  vote  of  the  Class,  however,  has  compelled  him  to  publish  it. 

2 


lO  CLASS      MEETINGS. 

The  Class  of  "  Forty-Nine,"  my  boys, 

The  Class  of"  Forty-Nine," 
We  love  its  pleasant  memories  well. 

The  Class  of  "  Forty-Nine." 

And  when,  at  last.  Commencement  came. 

New  honors  crowned  our  shrine. 
For  "  First  Orations,"  boys,  we  claim. 

Were  born  of"  Forty- Nine." 

The  Class  of"  Forty-Nine,"  my  boys. 

The  Class  of"  Forty-Nine," 
Proud,  pleasant  memories  round  it  twine. 

The  Class  of  "  Forty-Nine." 

Then  shout  and  sing,  till  morning  pale. 

For  oak  and  climbing  vine. 
The  soaring  sons  of  proud  old  Yale, 
The  men  of  "Forty-Nine!" 

The  Class  of  "Forty-Nine,"  my  boys, 

The  Class  of  "  Forty-Nine," 
Proud  triumphs  grace  its  festal  shrine. 
The  Class  of  "  Forty-Nine." 

The  Chair  then  requested  the  Class  to  be  seated  for  a  momentj 
and  the  Secretary  proposed  that  a  meeting  should  be  held  after  the 
exercises  of  Commencement ;  also,  that  all  the  members  of  the 
Class,  who  should  be  in  New  Haven  at  each  Commencement  season, 
should  assemble  together,  that  we  might  have  a  yearly  meeting, 
though  perchance  a  small  one.  He  then,  after  expressing  his  thanks 
to  the  Class,  for  the  manner  in  which  his  services  had  been  noticed, 
and  alluding  to  the  value  of  College  friendships,  and  the  increased 
strength  and  preciousness  which  they  acquire,  as  the  friends  of  our 
earlier  youth  pass  into  the  unseen  world,  requested  that,  in  gratitude 
to  our  Heavenly  Father,  for  the  preservation  of  the  lives  of  all  our 
number,  the  meeting  might  be  closed  with  prayer.  Mr.  Buck  then 
led  in  a  very  impressive  and  beautiful  prayer,  after  which  the  meet- 
ing adjourned  at  4^  o'clock  A.  M.  of  Thursday. 

Thursday,  July  29th,  6^  P.  M.  The  Class  met  again  at  the 
Trumbull  Gallery.  The  Secretary  took  the  Chair.  A  motion  was 
made  and  passed,  that  the  two  songs  which  did  not  allude  to  the  dif- 
ferent members  of  the  Class,  should  be  published  with  the  Secre- 
tary's report.     The  deaths  of  George   Haskell,  who  left  the  Class 


CLASS     MEETINGS.  H 

during  Freshman  year,  and  of  Cornelius  Sterling,  who  left  about  the 
middle  of  Junior  year,  were  mentioned  by  the  Chair,  and  a  resolution 
was  offered,  that  copies  of  the  Secretary's  report  should  be  sent  to 
the  families  of  the  dead,  as  well  as  to  the  friends  of  those  who  died 
during  our  College  course — A.  J.  Douglass  and  Wheeler.  This  res- 
olution was  adopted  by  a  unanimous  vote.  Haskell  left  us  so  early 
in  our  course,  that  he  was  intimately  known  to  but  very  few  of  those 
who  were  connected  with  the  Class  at  graduation  ;  but  as  the  loss  of 
Sterling  was  referred  to,  all  felt  that  a  warm-hearted  friend  and  brother 
had  gone  down  to  the  grave,  who,  though  he  went  forth  from  our 
number  when  we  had  passed  but  half  our  time  of  sojourn  here, 
would  yet  be  ever  remembered  as  one  of  that  band  of  Classmates, 
whose  faces  and  characters  will  remain  deeply  impressed  upon  the 
mind,  so  long  as  the  memory  of  the  Class  of  1849  continues  among 
those  who  composed  its  happy  circle. 

After  discussion,  it  was  voted,  that  the  next  regular  meeting  of  the 
Class  should  be  held  seven  years  from  that  day,  at  the  Commence- 
ment season  in  1859 ;  but  that  all  who  should  be  present,  should 
meet  every  year,  that  no  gathering  of  the  Alumni  might  pass  without 
a  meeting  of  the  Class  of  1849.  The  Secretary  gave  notice  that 
his  report  would  be  published  in  a  few  weeks  ;  and,  after  some  other 
unimportant  business,  the  Class  removed  to  the  front  of  the  building, 
where,  after  "  three  times  three"  for  "  Forty-nine,"  and  a  general 
shaking  of  hands,  we  separated  until  the  year  1859. 


SECRETARY'S    REPORT. 

YALE  COLLEGE,  JULY  28,  1852. 


The  Secretary  of  the  Class  of  1849,  at  the  triennial  meeting  of  the 
Class,  would  beg  leave  to  offer  his  report  in  respect  to  the  duties 
and  business  of  his  office. 

My  Classmates  : 

Three  College  years  ago  to-morrow  night,  we  met  for  the  first 
time  to  give  each  other  the  hand  of  friendship,  as  graduates  of  old 
Yale — pledging  each  other  to  meet  again,  if  life  should  be  spared, 
when  this  Commencement  season  should  remind  us  of  the  past  and 
of  the  future.  Three  College  years  have  gone,  carrying  with  them  all 
our  generation  of  students  forth  into  the  world,  until  now  the  Fresh- 
men of  our  Senior  days  are  just  bidding  farewell  to  the  old  scenes — 
looked  upon  by  the  expiring  and  the  rising  Freshmen  of  to-day,  with 
something  of  the  same  reverence  with  which  they  themselves  re- 
garded us  in  that  "  dim  shadowy  period"  of  the  past.  We  meet  to- 
night— fifty-seven  of  that  blessed  ninety- four — nay,  all  of  that  ninety- 
four — for  they  are  all  with  us  in  spirit  at  this  hour — a  band  unbroken 
by  death — to  look  back  upon  the  hours  spent  together  here  in  our 
second  home.  And,  first  of  all,  in  presenting  before  you,  as  your 
official  servant,  the  way  in  which  we  have  been  led,  since  we  uttered 
the  parting  word,  let  me  remind  you  of  the  gratitude  we  owe  to  Him, 
who  rules  above,  that  this  joyful  season  finds  us  all  still  among  the 
living.  We  have  mourned  over  the  loss  of  friends — some  of  us  over 
each  other's  friends — but  we  assemble  to-night  without  a  tear  for  a 
Classmate  lost,  with  the  assurance  that  all  of  the  absent  ones  are 
looking  with  sympathies  and  warm  feelings  to  us  who  are  so  favored 
as  to  be  gathered  here. 


SECRETARY     S      REPORT 


13 


In  carrying  out  the  duties  of  the  office  which  you  assigned  me  at 
our  graduation,  I  have  watched,  with  some  degree  of  care,  from  year 
to  year,  the  progress  of  each  member  of  the  Class.  At  our  first 
meeting  in  August,  1850,  it  may  be  remembered  that  we  assembled 
forty-seven,  or  one -half  of  our  whole  number,  on  College  grounds, 
and  at  the  last  Commencement,  nearly  thirty  met  again.  I  felt  then, 
that  the  spirit  of  "  forty-nine"  was  reigning  with  its  old  power  over 
the  Class  ;  and  I  resolved  that  our  triennial  meeting  should  surpass, 
in  point  of  numbers,  all  former  gatherings  of  a  similar  character. 
In  accordance  with  this  feeling,  I  informed  the  Classmates  who  were 
here  in  July  last,  that  I  should  hold  communication  with  all  who 
graduated  with  us,  within  the  twelve  months  then  to  come  ;  and  in 
the  Spring  vacation  of  this  College  year,  I  carried  out  that  intention, 
by  writing  nearly  one  hundred  letters.  I  wrote  them  all  in  preference 
to  getting  a  printed  form,  because  I  felt  that  the  sight  of  a  Classmate's 
hand  would,  peradventure,  lead  some  to  meet  with  us,  who  might 
otherwise  have  remained  away,  or  would  at  least  be  much  more  cer- 
tain to  bring  a  written  answer  to  those  questions  which  would  be  so 
interesting  to  the  Class.  And  in  this  I  was  not  mistaken  ;  for  within 
three  weeks  after  the  first  of  June,  nearly  sixty  had  given  me  a  his- 
tory of  their  lives.  When  the  month  was  entirely  gone,  I  wrote 
again  to  all  from  whom  I  had  not  heard — some  twenty  or  thirty 
letters  more — having,  in  the  meantime,  determined  with  certainty 
the  residences  of  all,  by  communicating  with  the  friends  of  those  in 
respect  to  whom  I  was  not  thoroughly  informed.  Of  the  results,  the 
report  which  I  am  to  read,  will  speak  with  sufficient  fullness  for  itself, 
presenting,  as  it  will,  the  occupations  and  employments  of  all  our 
Classmates  during  the  three  years  past,  with  but  one  single  exception. 
And  in  stating  this,  you  must  allow  me  to  say  that  I  feel  some  satis- 
faction, and  that  1  feel  that  it  may  serve  to  show  somewhat  of  the 
superiority,  in  point  of  Class  spirit,  as  well  as  in  all  other  respects, 
of  the  Class  of  1849  to  all  other  Classes  since  the  flood.  For  any 
thing  which  I  may  thus  have  done  to  render  this  meeting  one  of 
interest,  I  do  not  even  claim  your  thanks,  for  I  have  only  fulfilled  the 
duties  of  my  station  ;  and  I  have  had  more,  far  more  than  a  com- 
pensation for  all  my  labor,  in  the  renewed  assurance  which  each 
Classmate's  letter  gave  me  in  reply,  of  that  which  afforded  me  so 
much  pleasure  at  my  graduation,  and  which  will  always,  so  long  as 
life  continues,  be  one  of  the  most  delightfiil  of  all  thoughts  connected 


14  SECRETARY     S      REPORT. 

with  my  College  course — the  thought  that,  however  excited  the 
strifes,  or  bitter  the  animosities  of  College  might  have  been  with 
others,  there  was  no  Classmate  towards  whom  I  was  not  a  friend- 
none  who,  so  far  as  I  have  ever  known,  bore  a  single  feeling  of  ill 
will  towards  myself. 

With  these  few  few  words  of  introduction,  I  beg  leave  to  offer  you, 
as  the  result  of  my  preparation  for  the  Class  meeting,  the  following 
Report. 


N.  B.  Since  the  presentation  of  the  report  to  the  Class,  at  their  meeting  in 
July,  the  facts  in  respect  to  the  individual  referred  to  above,  as  one  concerning 
whom  nothing  was  known,  have  been  obtained,  so  that  we  now  have  information 
as  to  the  residence  and  business  of  all  the  graduated  members. 


SUMMARY 


RECORD  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1849, 


ENOCH     GEORGE    ADAMS. 

Born  at  Concord,  N-  H.,  Feb.  20,  1830. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Teaching  school  during  some  portion  of  the  years  1850-51. 

Engaged  in  farming  in  Durham,  N.  H.,  ^  1852. 

EDWAED    AUGUSTUS    ARNOLD. 

Born  in  New  Hampshire,  1827. 

Entered  Sophomore,  Sept.,  1846. 

Teaching  in  Stonington,  Ct.,  1849-50. 

Studying  medicine  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  1850-52. 

Received  Degree  of  M.  D.,  March,  1852. 

A  physician  in  the  Baltimore  City  and  County  Alms  House,    1852. 

JAMES    HENRY    ATKINS. 

Born  at  Meriden,  Ct.,  April  25,  1828. 

Entered  Sophomore,  Nov.,  1846. 

Teaching  in  Plymouth,  Ct.,  1849-50. 

Teaching  in  Meriden,  Ct.,  1850-52. 
Intending  to  enter  the  profession  of  the  lav^^, 

JOHN    LIGHT    ATLEE. 

Born  at  Lancaster,  Pa.,  June  21,  1830. 

Entered  Sophomore,  Dec,  1846. 

Studying  medicine  with  his  father  at  Lancaster,  Pa.,  1849-51. 


16  secretary's    report. 

Studying  medicine  at  University  of  Pennsylvania,  1852. 

Not  yet  received  his  degree  or  settled. 

JOHN    ANDREW    BAER. 

Born  at  Lancaster,  Pa.,  Aug.  15,  1825. 

Entered  Sophomore,  Dec,  1846. 

Without  regular  business,  in  Lancaster,  Pa.,  1849-50. 

Teaching  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  as  Principal  of  "  Wilson 

Presbyterian  Academy,"  1850-52- 

THOMAS  RIDGWAY  BANNAN. 

Born  at  Orvi^igsburg,  Pa.,  Oct.  10,  1828. 

Entered  Freshman,  May,  1846. 

Studied  law  with  his  father  in  Pottsville,  Pa.,  1849-52. 
Studied  law  in  Dane  Law  School,  Cambridge,  Mass., 

during  Autumn  of  1851. 

Admitted  to  the  bar,  1852. 

Settled  as  a  lawyer  in  Pottsville,  Pa.,  1852. 

HORACE     BARNARD. 

Born  at  Charleston,  S.  C,  July  31,  1829. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Resided,  without  occupation,  in  Hartford,  Ct.,  and  New 

York  city,  till  Jan.,  1850. 

Clerk  in  a  wholesale  mercantile  house  in  New  York 

city,  till  July,  1850. 

Without  regular  business,  till  Jan.,  1851. 

Studying  law  in  George  Wood's  office.  New  York  city, 

till  Oct.,  1851. 

Broker  in  his  father's  office  in  New  York  city,  till  April,  1852. 
Studying  law  in  Dane  Law  School,  Cambridge,  Mass.,         1852. 

ROBERT  PADDOCK  BARNARD. 

Born  at  Greene,  Chenango  Co.,  N.  Y.,  Dec,  1827. 

Entered  Sophomore,  May,  1847. 

Merchant  in  Greene,  N.  Y.,  1850-52. 

Married  to  Miss  Margaret  H.  Welch,  Sept.  4,  1851. 

One  child — Edward  Arnold  Barnard — born  June  26,  1852. 
Settled  for  life  in  the  mercantile  business. 

LORIN    BARNES. 

Born  at  Rutland,  Vt. 

Entered  Sophomore,  Sept.,  1846. 


SECRETARYS     REPORT.  17 

Teaching,  1849-50. 

Analytical  Department,  Yale  College,  May  to  Sept.,  1850. 

Teaching  in  Branford,  Ct.,  1850-51. 

Teaching  in  Holley,  Orleans  Co.,  N.  Y.,  1851-52. 
Intends  to  make  teaching  his  profession. 

SHELDON  CLARK  BEECHER. 

Born  at  Oxford,  Ct.,  April  7,  1826. 

Entered  Sophomore,  from  Class  of  '48,  Sept.,  1846. 

Teaching  in  Gal  way  Academy,  Saratoga  Co.,  N.  Y.,  1849-50. 

Teaching  in  Great  Harrington,  Mass.,  1850-51. 

Teaching  in  Edinburgh,  Saratoga  Co.,  N."Y.,  1851-52. 

Permanently  settled  as  teacher  of  "  Sacondaga  Institute," 

Edinburgh,  N.  Y.,  1852. 

Married  Miss  M,  E.  Candee,  of  Bristol,  Ct.,  Nov.  4,  1850. 

GEORGE    BENEDICT. 

Born  at  Bethel,  Ct.,  1825. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studying  medicine  in  New  York  city,  1849-50. 

Studying  at  Yale  Medical  School,  1850-51. 

Received  degree  of  M.  D.,  1851. 

Settled  permanently  as  a  physician  in  New  York  City. 
One  of  the  Board  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  to 
the  "  Home  for  the  Friendless,"  New  York  City,  July,  1852. 

Elected  deacon  of  the   "  Free  Congregational  Church," 

New  York  City,  June  7,  1852. 

Married  to  Miss  Grace  Callbreath,  April  14,  1852. 

WILLIAM    DARIUS    BISHOP. 

Born  at  Bloomfield,  N.  J.,  Sept.  14,  1827. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studied  law,  1849. 

Intending  to  be  admitted  to  the  bar,  but  not  to  practice  law. 
Without  regular  business,  till  Oct.,  1850. 

Settling  his  father's  estate,  till  Jan.,  1852. 

Engaged  in  copper  works  and  Railroad  business,  in 

Bridgeport,  Ct.,  1852. 

Permanently  settled  in  business. 

Married  Miss  Julia  A.  Tomlinson,  of  Bridgeport,  Oct.  21,  1850. 
One  child— Mary  F.  Bishop— born  Oct.  4,  1851, 

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18  secretary's     REPORT. 

OSCAR    BISSELL. 

Born  at  Litchfield,  Ct.,  Dec,  1822. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Student  in  theology  at  East  Windsor,  Ct.,  till  March,  1850. 
Book  agent,  colporteur,  &c.,  partly  in  Philadelphia, 

till  March,  1851. 

Studying  theology  at  East  Windsor,  1851-52. 

Licensed  to  preach,  June  2,  1852. 

SHEARJASHUB    BOURNE,    JR. 

Born  at  Bristol,  R.  L,  Dec.  28,  1822. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Teacher  in  Madison  County,  Ky.,  1849-50. 

Student  in  theology  at  Andover,  Mass.,  1850-52. 

LEVI    BARNES    BRADLEY. 

Born  at  Southington,  Ct.,  Jan.  15,  1826. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studied  law  with  Hon.  Isaac  Toucey,  Hartford,  Ct.,  1849-51. 

Admitted  to  the  bar,  Aug.  5,  1851. 

Settled  as  a  lawyer  in  Hartford,  Ct.,  1851-52, 

Clerk  of  Connecticut  Senate,  1852. 

AUGUSTUS    BRANDEGEE. 

Born  at  New  London,  Ct.,  July  15,  1828. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studying  law  at  New  London,  Ct,,  1849-50. 

Studying  law  at  Yale  Law  School,  1850-51. 

Admitted  to  the  bar,  Sept.,  1851. 
Settled  as  a  lawyer,  at  New  London,  in  partnership 

with  A.  C.  Lippitt,  Esq.,  1851-52, 

CHARLES    LEWIS    BRENT. 

Born  at  Winchester,  Va.,  1829. 

Entered  Sophomore,  Sept.,  1846. 

Studying  law  in  Winchester,  Va,,  1849-51. 

Admitted  to  the  bar,  Sept.,  1851. 

Settled  as  a  lawyer  in  Winchester,  1851-52. 

BENJAMIN    SWAN    BRONSON. 

Born  at  Augusta,  Me.,  1829. 


secretary's    report.  19 

Entered  Junior,  from  Waterville  College,  Maine,         Sept.  1847. 

Teaching  in  Hertford,  Perquimans  Co.,  N.  C,  1849-51. 
Studying  Law  during  eight  months  of  this  time. 

Tutor  in  St.  James'  College,  Maryland,  1852. 

Now  a  candidate  for  Orders  in  the  Diocese  of  N.  C,  and 
expecting  to  be  an  Episcopal  Minister. 

EDWIN  AUGUSTUS  BUCK. 

Born  in  Bucksport,  Me.,  May  31,  1824. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Student  in  Theology  in  Bangor,  Me.,  1849-50. 

Student  in  Theology  in  Andover,  Mass.,  1850-51. 

Student  in  Theology  in  Bangor,  Me.,  1851-52. 

Licensed  to  preach,  Oct.,  1851. 

JOHN  CATLIN    BULL. 

Born  at  Southbury,  Ct.,  Oct.  12,  1824. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Teacher  in  Danbury,  Ct.,  till  May,  1850. 

Teacher  in  Tarrytown,  N.  Y.,  till  Aug.,  1850. 

Student  in  Theology  at  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  1850-52. 

Licensed  to  preach,  July  19,  1852. 

CHARLES    GREENE  CAME. 

Born  at  Buxton,  Me.,  Sept.  25,  1826. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studying  Law   in  Portland  Me.,  1849-52. 

Teaching  in  Maine,  during  the  winters  of  1850-51. 

Editor  in  Portland,  for  one  or  two  months  in  1852. 

Expecting  to  be  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  Oct.,  1852. 

ISAAC    EDDY  CAREY. 

Born  at  Carroll,  N.  Y.,  July  29,  1822. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Tutor  in  Beloit  College,  Wisconsin,  1849-50. 

StudyiBg  Theology  in  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  1850-52. 

Licensed  to  preach,  June,  1852. 
Married  in  Scipio,  N.  Y.,  to  Miss  Eliza  A.  Wright,  Jan.  1,  1851. 

WILLIAM  GEORGE    CHANDLER. 

Born  at  Mobile,  Ala.,  Sept.  15,  1829. 

Entered  Freshman,  May,  1846. 


20  secketary's    report. 

Exchange  and  Commission  Merchant  in  Mobile,  Ala.,  1850-52. 

Settled  permanently  in  Mercantile  business. 

WILLIAM  BARKER  CLARK. 

Born  at  Gibara,  Cuba,  Dec.  27,  1829. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Without  regular  business — in  Sandusky,  Ohio,  Fort 

Wayne,  Ind.,  and  New  Haven,  Ct.,  1849-50. 

Studying  Theology  at  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  1850-52. 

Licensed  to  preach,  July  19,  1852. 

WILLIAM  LAWRENCE  CLARK. 

Born  at  Winchester,  Va.,  Jan.  16,  1830. 
Entered  Junior,  Sept.,  1847. 

Studied  Law  with  his  father  in  Winchester,  Va.,  1849-51. 

Admitted  to  the  Bar,  Nov.,  1851. 

Settled  as  a  Lawyer  in  Winchester,  1851-52. 

BELA  HORTON    COLEGROVE. 

Born  at  Coventry,  R.  L,  March  22,  1824. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  Brown  University,  Jan.,  1846. 

Studied  Law  in  Yale  Law  School,  1849-51. 

Admitted  to  the  Bar  in  Connecticut,  Aug.  15,  1850. 

Taught  School  in  Stratford,  Ct.,  during  winter  of  1849-50. 

Collector  for  the  Brothers'  Society  of  Yale  College, 

Nov.,  1850,  till  March,  1851. 
Settled  in  Bufialo,  N.  Y.,  March,  1851. 

Admitted  to  the  Bar  and  opened  a  Law  office  in 

Buffalo,  May  1,  1851. 

HAMILTON    COUPER. 

Born  in  Glynn  Co.,  Ga.,  Jan.  11,  1829. 

Entered  Sophomore,  Sept.,  1846. 

Studied  Law  in  Georgia,  1849-50. 

Studied  Law  at  Cambridge  Law  School,  Mass.,  1850-51. 

Prevented  by  disease  of  the  eyes  from  professional  study,     1851-52. 
Expects  now  to  continue  the  study  of  the  Law  and  to  be  ad- 
mitted to  the  Bar  in  a  year. 
Present  residence — St.  Simons  Island,  Georgia. 

GEORGE  DOUGLAS. 

Born  at  Waterford,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  10,  1829. 


secretary's    report.  21 

Entered  Junior,  from  the  University  of  New  York 

City,  Sept.,  1847. 

Studied  Law  in  New  York  City,  1849-50. 

Studied  Law  in  Ballston,  Saratoga  Co.,  N.  Y.,  1850-51. 

Admitted  to  the  Bar,  May,  1851. 

Travelling  in  Europe  and  the  East,  since  June,  1851. 

Expecting  to  return  in  Oct.,  1852. 

FRANKLIN   ASHER  DURKEE. 

Born  in  Susquehanna  Co.,  Pa.,  July  31,  1825. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

In  Brattleboro',  Vt.,  for  the  benefit  of  his  health,  till      Oct.,  1849. 
Entered  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  Oct.,  1849. 

Returned  soon  after  to  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  and  began 

study  of  Law,  Dec,  1849. 

Entered  a  Law  Office,  March,  1850. 

Appointed  Superintendent  of  Public  Schools  of 

Chenango,  N.  Y.,  July,  1850. 

Re-elected  to  the  same  office  for  two  years  from  Nov.,  1850. 

Admitted  to  the  Bar,  Jan.   13,  1852. 

Settled  as  a  Lawyer  in  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  1852. 

TIMOTHY  DWIGHT. 

Born  in  Norwich,  Ct.,  Nov.  16,  1828. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Resident  G-raduate  at  Yale  College,  on  the  Clark 

Scholarship  foundation,  1849-51. 

Studying  Theology  in  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  1851-52. 

Tutor  in  Yale  College,  1851-52. 

ELLSWORTH    ELIOT. 

Born  at  Guilford,  Ct.,  Sept.  15,  1827. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studied  Medicine  in  Guilford  and  New  Haven,  Ct.,  till  Oct.,  1850. 
Studied  Medicine  in  New  York  City,  1850-52. 

Received  degree  of  M.  D.,  March,  1852. 

House  Surgeon  in  Belie vue  Hospital,  N.  Y.  City,  1852. 

Will  continue  in  this  office  till  April,  1853. 

STEPHEN  FENN. 

Born  at  Plymouth,  Ct.,  Oct.  6, 1824. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 


22  secretary's    report. 

Teacher  at  Norwich,  Ct.,  and  Resident  Graduate  at 

.      Yale  College,  1849-50. 

Teacher  in  Soiithington,  Ct.,  1850-51. 

Studied  Theology  in  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  1851-52. 

FRANCIS  MILES     FINCH. 

Born  at  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  June  9,  1827. 

Entered  Sophomore,  Sept.,  1846. 

Studying  Law  in  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  1849-51. 

Admitted  to  the  Bar,  Oct.,  1850. 

Commenced  practicing  Law,  May,  1851. 

In  partnership  with  Judge  Walbridge,  of  Ithaca,  1851-52. 

Elected  Poet  for  the  Centennial  celebration  of  the  Lino- 

nian  Society  of  Yale  College  in  1853,  July  28,  1852. 

FRANKLIN    WOODBURY  FISK. 

Born  at  Hopkinton,  N.  H.,  Feb.,  1821. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studying  Theology  at  Yale  Theological  Seminary,               1849-52. 

Licensed  to  preach,  July  19,  1852. 

Tutor  in  Yale  College,  1851-52. 

CHARLES    HENRY    FOOTE. 

Born  at  Huntsville,  Ala.,  Aug.   17,  1828. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studied  Law  at  Memphis,  Tenn.,  1849-52. 

Removed  to  Arkansas,  as  a  Lawyer,  in  the  spring  of  1852. 

RUFUS    AUSTIN    FORD. 

Born  at  Natchez,  Miss.,  Feb.  27,  1827. 

Entered  Junior,  Sept.,  1847. 

Studied  Medicine  in  Natchez,  Miss.,  1849-50. 

Studied  Medicine  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  1850-52. 

Received  degree  of  M.  D.,  March  1,  1852. 
Expecting  to  settle  as  a  Physician  in  Texas. 

LITTLETON  PURNELL    FRANKLIN. 

Born  at  Berlin,  Md.,  Jan.  18,  1831. 
Entered  Freshman,  May,  1846. 

Settled  in  Berlin,  Md.,  1849-52. 

Has  been  in  feeble  health  since  graduation. 


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By  the  death  of  his  father  and  brother,  he  has  come 
into  possession  of  a  large  estate,  and  is  now  set- 
tled permanently  in  Maryland. 

PHILIP  GLEASON  GALPIN. 

Born  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 

Entered  Freshman, 

Studied  Law  in  New  Haven,  Ct., 

Admitted  to  the  Bar, 

Settled  in  Findlay,  Hancock  Co.,  Ohio, 

CHARLES     RUSH    GOODRICH. 

Born  at  Troy,  N.  Y., 

Entered  Sophomore, 

Resident  Graduate  at  Yale  College, 

Teacher  in  Louisville,  Ky., 

Studying  Medicine  in  Louisville, 

GEORGE  ANDERSON  GORDON. 

Born  at  Savannah,  Ga., 
Entered  Sophomore, 
Studied  Law  at  Yale  Law  School,  till 
Studied  Law  privately,  till 
Lawyer  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  till 
Lawyer  in  Savanah,  Ga.,  Nov.  1851, 

Permanently  settled  in  Savannah. 
Married  to  Miss  Caroline  B.  Steinbergen,  of  Vir- 
ginia, 
One  child — George  Steinbergen   Gordon — born, 
Mrs.  Gordon  died, 

ALBERT  GALLATIN  GREEN. 

Born  at  Reading,  Pa., 

Entered  Freshman, 

Studied  Law  in  Reading,  Pa., 

Teacher  two  months  during  spring  of 

Admitted  to  the  Bar, 

Settled  as  a  Lawyer  in  Reading,  Pa., 

ELIAL  FOOTE  HALL. 

Born  at  Carroll,  N.  Y., 
Entered  Freshman, 


Feb.  3, 

1830. 

Sept., 

1845. 

1849-51. 

1851. 

Dec, 

1851. 

1828. 

Sept., 

1846. 

1849-50. 

1850-51. 

1851-52. 

1830. 

Sept., 

1846. 

June, 

1850. 

Nov., 

1850. 

June, 

1851. 

till  Aug., 

1852. 

June  5, 

1850. 

July  16, 

1851. 

July  16, 

1851. 

Dec.  6, 

1828. 

Sept., 

1845, 

1849-51. 

1850. 

Nov., 

1851. 

1852. 

July  26 

1827. 

Sept. 

, 1845, 

1849-50. 

1850-52. 

May, 

1824. 

Sept., 

1846. 

1849-50. 

1850-51. 

Dec, 

1851. 

1852. 

Nov.  27, 

1830. 

Sept., 

1845. 

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Resident  Graduate  at  Yale  College — studying  Mod- 
ern Languages  and  Law, 
Travelling  in  Europe, 
Intends  entering  the  Legal  profession. 

JOHN     LAWYER    HANES. 

Born  at  Fulton,  N.  Y., 

Entered  Sophomore, 

Studied  Law  in  Schoharie  Co.,  N.  Y., 

Studied  Law  in  New  York  City, 

Admitted  to  the  Bar, 

Settled  as  a  Lawyer  in  New  York  City, 

FRANCIS  EDWIN    HARRISON. 

Born  at  New  Haven,  Ct., 

Entered  Freshman, 

Teacher  in  Brooklyn,  Ct.,  and  Medical  Student, 

Nov.,  1849,  to  Aug.,  1850. 
Studied  Medicine  in  New  York  City,  till  March,  1851. 

Teacher  in  West  Killingly,  Ct.,  till  Nov.,  1851. 

Studied  Medicine  in  New  York  City,  till  April,  1852. 

Editor  of  "  Windham  County  Telegraph,"  West  Killingly, 

Ct.,  1852. 

HENRY    MILLS    HASKELL. 

Born  at  Boston,  Mass.,  May  10,  1827. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Teacher  in  New  York  City,  four  months,  1850. 

Studying  Theology  in  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  1849-52. 

Licensed  to  preach,  July,  1851. 

RUFUS  ALEXANDER  HENSON. 

Born  in  Burke  Co.,  N.  C,  1828. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studied  Law  with  Chancellor  Peck,  Tuscaloosa,  Ala.,  1849-51. 

Admitted  to  the  Bar,  March,  1851. 

Student  in  Cambridge  Law  School,  1851-52. 

Received  degree  of  LL.  B.,  at  Cambridge,  July  21,  1852. 

Married  to  Miss  Mary  Rogers  Bearing,  of  Tusca- 
loosa, Sept.  26,  1849. 
One  child — Dora  Blanche  Henson — born,  June  27,  1850. 
Settled  permanently  in  San  Antonio,  Texas,  1852. 


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HENRY     HASTINGS    HILL. 

Born  at  Providence,  R.  I.,  May  6,  1825. 

Entered  Freshman  from  class  of  1848,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studying  Law  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  1849-50. 

Civil  Engineer,  1850-52. 
Engaged  on  the  Hamilton  and  Richmond  Railroad,  on  the 

line  which  is  to  connect  Cincinnati  and  Chicago,          1851-52. 
Permanently  settled  in  this  business. 


THEODORE    HENRY     HITTELL. 

Born  at  Hamilton,  Ohio, 

Entered  Senior, 

Without  regular  business,  till 

Studied  Law  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

Admitted  to  the  Bar, 

About  settling  as  a  Lawyer  in  Hamilton,  Ohio, 


1829. 

Sept.,  1848. 
May,  1850. 

1850-52. 
May,  1852. 

1852. 


HORACE  HOLLISTER. 

Born  at  Salisbury,Ct.,  June  3,  1826. 

Entered  Sophomore,  Sept.,  1846. 

Teacher  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  1849-50. 

Removed  to  the  South  on  account  of  ill  health,  Oct.,  1850. 

Teacher  in  Mobile,  Ala.,  1850-52. 
Intends  studying  Law,  and  will  continue  for  the  present 
in  Mobile. 

EDWARD  CLEMENT  HOUGH. 

Born  at  Hawkinsville,  Ga.,  Sept.  10,  1827. 

Entered  Freshman,  Nov.,  1845. 

Resided  in  Hawkinsville,  Ga.,  till  April,  1850. 
Private  Tutor  in  Ex.  Gov.  Hammond's  family,  South 

Carolina,  till  Dec,  1850. 

"Without  business — in  Brownville,  N.  Y.,  till  June,  1851. 

Studied  Law  in  Waynesboro',  Ga.,  1851-52. 

Admitted  to  the  Bar,  May  8, 1852. 

Expects  to  commence  practicing  Law  in  Nov.,  1852. 

THOMAS    SCRANTON  HUBBARD. 

Born  at  Upper  Middletown,  Ct.,  Sept.  25,  1825. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Manufacturer  of  Japanned  ware,  Meriden,  Ct.,  1849-51. 
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26  secretary's    report. 

Agent  for  a  Stock  Company  in  the  same  business,  at 

Durham,  Ct.,  1851-52. 

Married  to  Miss  Jane  E.  Woodruff,  of  Meriden,  Ct.,  Nov.  14,  1849. 

JOSEPH    HURLBUT. 

Born  in  New  York  City,  Feb.  19,  1828. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 
Studying   theology  in  Union  Theological  Seminary, 

New  York  City,  1849-50. 

Tutor  in  Beloit  College,  Wisconsin,  1850-51. 

Studying  theology  in  Andover,  Mass.,  till  May,  1852. 

Tutor  in  Yale  College,  May,  1852. 

CHARLES   JOSIAH    HUTCHINS. 

Born  in  Waterford,  Erie  Co.,  Pa.,  Sept.  8,  1825. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Teacher  in  Waterford,  Pa.,  1849-50. 

Studying  theology  in  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  1850-52. 

Licensed  to  preach,  July  19,  1852. 

WILLIAM     HUNTTING    JESSUP. 

Born  at  Montrose,  Pa.,  Jan.  29,  1830. 

Entered  Sophomore,  Sept.,  1846. 

Studied  law  with  his  father  in  Montrose,  Pa.,  1849-50. 

Teacher  in  Montrose,  nine  months,  1850-51. 

Studied  law  in  Montrose,  till  Nov.,  1851. 

Admitted  to  the  bar,  Nov.,  1851. 

In  partnership  with  his  father,  1852. 

JACOB    BROWN   KIRBY.  ^ 

Born  at  Brownville,  N.  Y.,  April  17,  1827. 

Entered  Sophomore,  from  Class  of  1848,  Sept.,  1846. 

Farmer,  manufacturer,  and  Secretary  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  a  Female  Seminary  in  Brownville, 
Jefferson  Co.,  N.  Y.,  1849-52. 

WILLIAM    BROWN    LEE. 

Born  at  Madison,  Ct.,  Aug.  30,  1828. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Teacher  in  Branford,  Ct.,  1849-50. 

Studying  theology  at  East  Windsor,  Ct.,  1850-52. 

Licensed  to  preach,  June  2,  1852. 


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frederick  st.  john  lockwood. 
Born  at  Nonvalk,  Ct.,  1827. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Farmer  in  Norwalk,  Ct.,  1849-52. 

AARON   LYON. 

Born  at  Southbridge,  Mass.,  Aug.  14,  1824. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studied  law  at  Yale  Law  School,  1849-50. 

Studied  law  in  Southbridge  and  Sturbridge,  Mass.,  1850-51. 

Admitted  to  the  bar,  Sept.,  1851. 

Lawyer — in  partnership  with  Benjamin  D.  Hyde,  in 

Sturbridge,  1851-52. 

Married  to  Miss  Mary  J.  Porter,  of  Sturbridge,      May  26,  1852. 

CORYDON    CHARLES    MERRIMAN. 

Born  at  Elbridge,  N.  Y.,  June  4,  1827. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studied  law  in  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  1849-50. 

Studied  law  in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  1850-51. 

Settled  on  a  farm  in  Skeneateles,  N.  Y.,  1851. 

Occupied  with  horticulture,  literary  pursuits,  &;c.,  1851-52. 

Married  to  Miss  Lucy  J.  Vickery,  of  Fishkill,  N.  Y., 

April  12,  1850. 

HENRY    LAURENS    METCALFE. 

Born  at  Natchez,  Miss.,  Sept.  21,  1829. 

Entered  Junior,  Sept.,  1847. 

Studied  law  a  few  months  in  Natchez,  Miss.,  1849. 

Commenced  study  of  medicine  in  New  Orleans,  Jan.,  1850. 

Confined  at  home  by  ill-health,  during  the  summer  of  1850. 

Entered  Medical  School  in  Crosby  St.,  N.  Y.  City,     Sept.,  1850. 
Remained  in  New  York  City,  most  of  the  time,  till     Jan.,  1852. 
Suffered  very  much  from  ill-health,  since  graduation. 
Married  Miss  Eliza  Kinsey,  of  Natchez,  May  27,  1852. 

Health  now  restored.     Just  about  becoming  a  planter, 
in  Natchez. 

JAMES    BROWNING    MILES. 

Born  at  Rutland,  Mass.,  1823. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Teacher  in  North  Fairfield,  Ct.,  1849-50. 


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Studying  theology  in  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  1850-51. 

Studying  theology  in  Andover,  Mass.,  1852. 

Tutor  in  Yale  College,  Sept.,  1852. 

JOHN    BELDEN    MITCHELL. 

Born  in  Vermont,  June,  1829. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Without  regular  business — in  Vermont,  1849-50. 

In  mercantile  business  in  New  York  City,  1850-52. 

Expecting  to  be  settled  in  business  the  coming  Autumn. 

MARK    BURNHAM    MOORE. 

Born  at  Shelby,  N.  Y. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Teacher  in  Meriden,  Ct.,  1849-51. 

Studied  law  in  Lockport,  N.  Y.,  till  Dec.  10,  1851.  - 

Studied  law  in  the  office  of  President  Fillmore, 

Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  1851-52. 

Admitted  to  the  bar,  ^  April  27,  1852. 

Not  yet  settled. 

EDWARD    DAFYDD    MORRIS. 

Born  at  Utica,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  31,  1825. 

Entered  Sophomore,  Sept.,  1846. 

Studying  theology  in  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  1849-52. 

Licensed  to  preach,  June,  1851. 

Settled  as  "stated  supply"  of  2d  Presbyterian  Church, 

in  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  May,  1852. 

Ordained  by  the  Cayuga  Presbytery,  N.  Y.,  June  2,  1852. 

Married  Miss  Elizabeth   Parmelee,   of  Fair  Haven, 

Ct.,  July  29,  1852. 

WASHINGTON    MURRAY. 

Born  in  New  York  City,  July  7,  1828. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studying  law  at  Cambridge  Law  School,  1849-51. 

Received  degree  of  LL.  B.,  July,  1851. 

Studying  law  in  New  York  City,  till  Jan.,  1852. 

Traveling  on  account  of  feeble  health,  through  North 

and  South  Carolina,  Georgia,  and  Florida,  1852. 

Returned  to  the  North  in  June  last,  but  with  health  not 

yet  restored. 


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romeo   ezekiel  north. 
Born  in  Louisiana,  March  31,  1830. 

Entered  Sophomore,  Sept.,  1846, 

Studying  law  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  1849-52. 

JOHN    OAKEY. 

Born  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  12,  1828. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studied  law  in  New  York  City,  1849-51. 

Teacher  of  the  art  of  playing  the  violin,  1849-51. 

Admitted  to  the  bar,  Oct.,  1851. 
Lawyer — in  the  office  of  C.  T.  Cromwell,  Esq.,  New 

York  City,  1851-52. 

DAVID    PECK. 

Born  at  Greenwich,  Ct.,  Feb.  16,  1825. 

Entered  Sophomore,  Sept.,  1846. 

Studying  theology  at  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  1849-52. 

Licensed  to  preach,  July,  1851. 

Expecting  to  be  ordained  and  settled  at  Orange,  Mass., 

Oct.  2,  1852. 
Married  to  Miss  Frances  M.  Jocelyn,  of  New  JIaven, 

Ct.,  Sept.  8,  1852. 

HUGH    FLORIEN    PETERS. 

Born  at  Hartford,  Ct.,  June  14,  1829. 
Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studying  law  in  Litchfield,  Ct.,  1850-51. 

Admitted  to  the  bar,  Dec,  1851. 

Not  yet  settled. 
Present  residence,  Cheshire,  Ct. 

WILLIAM    FREDERICK    POOLE. 

Born  at  Salem,  Mass.,  Dec.  24,  1821. 

Entered  Freshman,  May,  1846. 

Resided  in  New  Haven,  preparing  his  "  Index  to  Reviews,"    1849-50. 
Assistant  librarian  in  the  Boston  Atheneum,  1850-52. 

Librarian  of  Boston  Mercantile  Library  x\ssociation,  June,  1852. 

CHARLES    AUGUSTUS    LEWIS    RICHARDS. 

Born  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  March  30,  1830. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 


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Studied  medicine  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  1849-51. 

Studied  medicine  in  Jefferson  Medical  School,  Philadelphia,  1851-52. 
Received  degree  of  M.  D.,  March,  1852. 

Settled  as  a  physician  in  Cincinnati,  1852. 

WALKER    RICHARDSON. 

Born  in  Elbert  Co.,  Ga.,  1825. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 
A  planter  with  his  father  in  Glennville,  Ala.,  1849-51. 

A  planter  about  two  miles  from  Glennville,  1852, 

Settled  for  life  in  his  present  occupation. 

GEORGE    FREDERICK    ROBINSON. 

Born  in  Willoughby,  Ohio,  Aug.  11,  1827. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studied  law  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  1849-52. 

Admitted  to  the  bar,  April,  1852. 

Spending  the  present  Summer  in  Willoughby,  Ohio. 
Not  yet  settled. 

JOHN    ROCKWELL. 

Born  at  Savannah,  Ga.,  April  26,  1829, 
Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Engaged  upon  the  United  States  Coast  Survey,  1849-52. 

Stationed  near  Portland,  Me.,  and  in  Fall  River,  Mass., 

till  Jan.,  1850. 

Stationed  on  Edisto  Island,  S.  C,  till  A'pril,  1850. 

Stationed  in  California  and  Oregon,  1850-52. 

SAMUEL    NEWELL    ROWELL. 

Born  at  Cornish,  N.  H.,  Nov.  21,  1821. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studying  medicine  in  New  Haven,  Ct.,  1849-52. 

Graduated  at  Yale  Medical  School,  Jan.  15,  1852. 

Settled  as  a  physician  in  New  Haven,  Ct.,  1852. 

Married  to  Miss  Eliza  A.  Benham,  of  N.  Y.  City,  Aug.  17,  1850. 

THOMAS  ROGERS  SHEARON. 

Born  in  Alabama,  April,  1825. 

Entered  Sophomore,  Sept.,  1846. 

Settled  as  a  planter  in  Davidson  Co.,  near  Nashville, 

Tenn.,  1851-52. 


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• 

31 

Removed  to  Yorkville,  Gibson  Co.,  Tenn., 

t 

1852. 

Permanently  settled  as  a  planter. 

Married  at  home,  at  some  time  during  the  Autumn  of 

1849. 

One  child — born  in  the  Summer  of 

1851. 

ALFRED    LORING    SKINNER. 

Born  at  Bucksport,  Me., 

Nov.  22, 

1824. 

Entered  Freshman, 

Sept., 

1845. 

Studying  theology  in  Bangor,  Me., 

1849-52. 

Licensed  to  preach, 

Dec, 

1851. 

Not  yet  settled. 

EDWARD    PARMELEE    SMITH. 

Born  at  Southbury,  Ct., 

June  3, 

,  1827. 

Entered  Junior,  from  Dartmouth  College, 

Nov., 

1847. 

Teacher  in  Mobile,  Ala., 

1849-52. 

Intends  studying  for  the  ministry,  and  entering  Yale 
Theological  Seminary,  in  the  Autumn  of  1852. 

JOB    LEWIS    SMITH. 

Born  at  Borodino,  Onondaga  Co.,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  15,  1827. 

Entered  Freshman,  May,  1846. 

Studying  medicine  in  Onondaga  and  Courtland  Coun- 
ties, N.  Y.,  1849-50. 
Studying  medicine  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  1850-52. 

NATHAN    SEYMOUR    STARR. 

Born  in  New  York  City,  July  19,  1830. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

In  the  wholesale  hat,  cap,  and  straw  business,  N.  Y.  City,     1849-52. 
Married  to  Miss  Clarissa  W.  Wariand,  of  New  Haven, 

Ct.,  June  3,  1851. 

Permanently  settled  as  a  merchant  in  New  York  City. 

THOMAS  HUNTON  SWOPE. 

Born  at  Danville,  Ky.,  Nov.  21,  1828. 
Entered  Senior,  Sept.,  1848. 

Studying  medicine,  1849-52. 

Now  residing  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  1852. 

Has  been  in  feeble  health  since  graduation. 


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WILLIAM    CRAIG    SWOPE. 

Born  at  Danville,  Ky.,  Nov.  8,  1830. 

Entered  Senior,  Sept.,  1848. 

Studying  law  in  Kentucky,  1849-52. 

Graduated  at  Transylvania  Law  School,  Lexington, 

Ky.,  March,  1852. 

Resided  most  of  the  time,  since  graduation,  in  Dan- 
ville, Ky. 

Not  yet  settled. 

BENJAMIN    TALBOT. 

Born  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  May  22,  1827. 

Entered  Freshman,  May,  1846^ 

Resident  Graduate  in  New  Haven,  Ct.,  1849-50. 

Studying  theology  in  New  Haven,  Ct.,  1850-52. 

On  the  Berkeley  Scholarship  foundation,  Yale  College,        1849-52. 

Licensed  to  preach,  July  19,  1852. 

ANDREW    UPSON. 

Born  at  Southington,  Ct.,  May  18,  1825. 
Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 
Teacher  in  Salem,  N.  J.,  1849-50. 
Teacher  in  Wellsboro',  Tioga  Co.,  Pa.,  1850-51. 
Farmer  in  Southington,  Ct.,  1852. 
Married  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Lewis  Gridley,   of  South- 
ington, Ct.,  April  18,  1850. 
One  child — Ella  Maria  Upson — born,  April  3,  1852. 

AUGUSTUS    WALKER. 

Born  at  Medway,  Mass.,  Oct.  30,  1822. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studying  theology  in  Bangor,  Me.,  1849-50. 

Studying  theology  in  Andover,  Mass.,  1850-52. 

Licensed  to  preach,  April  13,  1852. 
Not  yet  settled. 

WILLIAM    WALLACE    WARD. 

Born  at  Savannah,  Ga.,  June  24,  1829. 

Entered  Freshman,  Oct.,  1845. 

Studying  law  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  1849-52. 

Admitted  to  the  bar,  May  30,  1852. 
Intending  to  settle  in  Cincinnati. 


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CHARLES    BILL    WARING. 

Born,  1828. 

Entered  Sophomore,  from  Class  of  1848,  Sept.,  1846. 

Studied  law  in  New  Haven,  Ct.,  till  May,  1851. 

Admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  York  City,  May,  1852. 

Settled  as  a  lawyer  in  New  York  City,  1852. 

Married  to  Miss  Fanny  Morris,  May  2,  1850. 

One  child — George  Webster  Waring — born  Nov.  12,  1851. 

JOHN    WATIES. 

Born  at  Statesburg,  S.  C,  March,  1828. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Civil  Engineer,  Jan.,  1850-52. 
Engaged  in  surveys  in  Rabun  Co.,  Ga.,  for  a  Railroad 

across  the  Blue  Ridge,  1852. 


ERASTUS    HAY    WEISER. 

Born  at  York,  Pa., 

Jan.  28,  1826. 

Entered  Freshman, 

Sept.,  1845. 

Studied  law  in  York,  Pa., 

1849-51. 

Admitted  to  the  bar. 

June  1,  1851. 

Lawyer  in  York,  Pa., 

1851-52. 

JAMES    LAWRENCE    WILLARD. 

Born  in  Madison,  Ct., 

1825. 

Entered  Freshman, 

Sept.,  1845. 

Studying  theology  at  Yale  Theological  Seminary, 

1849-52. 

Licensed  to  preach, 

July,  1851. 

JOHN    WILLARD. 

Born  at  Hartford,  Ct., 

1827. 

Entered  Freshman, 

Sept.,  1845. 

Teacher  in  Manchester,  Ct., 

1849-50, 

Studying  theology  in  Andover,  Mass., 

1850-52, 

MOSES    WINTHROP    WILSON. 

Born  at  Fairfield,  Ct.,                                            March  19,  1826. 

Entered  Freshman, 

Sept.,  1845. 

Studied  law  in  Bridgeport,  Ct.,               • 

1849-51. 

Admitted  to  the  bar, 

Dec,  1851. 

Clerk  of  Connecticut  House  of  Representatives, 

1851. 

Settled  as  a  lawyer  in  Westport,  Ct., 

1852. 

34  SECRET  AKYSREPORT. 

Married  to  Miss  Margaret  E.  Wheeler,  of  Easton, 

Ct.,  Nov.  20,  1850. 

SILAS   WODELL. 

Born  in  Washington,  Dutchess  Co.,  N.  Y.,  1825. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Studied  law  in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  1849-51. 

Admitted  to  the  bar,  July  8,  1851. 

Settled  as  a  lawyer  in  Poughkeepsie,   in  partnership 

with  James  Emott,  Jr.,  Esq.,  1851-52. 

CURTISS    TROWBRIDGE    WOODRUFF. 

Born  in  New  Haven,  Ct.,  Sept.  8,  1816. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845. 

Engaged  in  the  insurance  business  in  Worcester,  Mass.,      1849-50. 
Studying  theology  in  General  Episcopal  Seminary,  New 

York  City,  1850-51. 

In  the  insurance  business  in  New  York  City,  1851-52. 

Editor  of  "  Public  Sentiment,"  New  York  City,  1851-52. 

Intended  profession — theology. 
Married  to  Miss  Julia  L.  M.  Curtlss,  Feb.  10,  1849. 


RECORD 


OF    THOSE    MEMBERS    OF   THE    CLASS    WHO    LEFT 
BEFORE  GRADUATION. 


The  facts  presented  in  the  following  pages,  in  respect  to  those  who 
were  connected  with  the  Class,  during  some  portion  of  its  Collegiate 
course,  but  did  not  graduate  with  us,  were  not  included  in  the  report 
read  at  the  meeting  in  July  last,  but  have  been  gathered  from  various 
sources  since  that  time. 


OF  THOSE  WHO  LEFT  THE  CLASS  SENIOR  YEAR. 


JAMES    CAMPBELL. 

Born  at  Mobile,  Ala., 

April  4,  1828. 

Entered  Freshman, 

Sept.,  1845. 

Left  College, 

Nov.,  1848. 

Studied  law  in  Cambridge  Law  School,  till 

July,  1849. 

Studied  law  in  Mobile,  Ala., 

1849-51 

Admitted  to  the  bar, 

1851. 

Settled  as  a  lawyer  in  Mobile, 

1851-52, 

JAMES    DAVENPORT    SKINNEE. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  New  York  City, 

May,  1846. 

Left  College, 

Feb.,  1849. 

Studied  law  in  the  office  of  Fessenden  &  Ketchuin 

1,  New 

York  City, 

1849-51, 

Traveling  in  Europe, 

1852. 

CLINTON   WOODFORD. 

Born  at  Avon,  Ct., 

1828. 

Entered  Freshman, 

Sept.,  1845. 

Left  College, 

Jan.,  1  849. 

30  secretary's    report. 

Sailed  for  California,  about  Feb.,  1849. 

Since  that  time  has  been  in  San  Francisco  and  at  the 
mines.  At  the  last  accounts,  (Oct.,  1851,)  he 
was  on  the  Klamath  River,  near  the  Oregon  line, 
and  was  expecting  to  return  within  fifteen  months 
from  that  time,  1849-52. 

These  facts  were  kindly  furnished  by  his  father. 


OF  THOSE  WHO  LEFT  THE  CLASS  JUNIOR  YEAR. 

Stephen  Adams,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  entered  College,  Sept.,  1847; 
left  College,  June,  1848  ;  entered  and  was  graduated  with  the 
Class  of  1850  ;  and  since  graduation,  has  been  studying  law  in 
Lynchburg,  Va.,  1850-52.  * 

Andrew  Jackson  Douglass,  of  Orwigsburg,  Pa. ;  born  at  Orwigs- 
burg,  Aug.  31,  1828;  entered  Freshman,  May,  1846;  left 
College,  April,  1848.  "During  the  Winter  of  Junior  year,  he 
applied  himself  very  closely  to  his  studies,  and  about  a  month 
or  six  weeks  before  the  Spring  vacation,  he  complained  of  feeK 
ing  unwell.  His  complaint  grew  worse  and  worse,  until  he 
placed  himself  under  the  charge  of  a  physician,  and  was  con- 
fined to  his  bed  for  several  weeks.  A  day  or  two  before  the 
close  of  the  term,  he  began  to  grow  better,  so  that  he  left  for 
his  home.  On  his  reaching  home,  he  found  that  his  disease 
was  dropsy  in  the  chest.  He  failed  very  rapidly,  until  the  close 
of  the  vacation,  when  he  died  May  22,  1848." 

"  By  those  who  knew  him,  he  can  never  be  forgotten." 

Lewis  Gano,  of  Bethlehem,  N.  J. ;  entered  the  Class  from  the  Class 
of  '48,  May,  1846  ;  left  College  about  March,  1848  ;  studied  at 
Union  Theological  Seminary,  in  New  York  City,  1848-51  ; 
and,  for  the  past  year,  has  been  traveling  with  Dr.  Robinson,  of 
that  institution,  in  Europe  and  the  East. 

Albert  Hobron,  of  New  London,  Ct.  ;  entered  Freshman,  Sept., 
1845  ;  left  College,  Jan.,  1848  ;  studied  medicine  in  New  Lon- 
don, Ct.,  1848;  studied  medicine  in  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania,  1849-50;  received  degree  of  M.  D.,  April  6,  1850; 
spent  the  Summer  of  1850,  in  farming;  settled  as  a  physician 
in  New  London,  Jan.  10,  1851. 


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37 


William  M.  Martin,  of  Pulaski,  Tenn. ;  entered  Freshman,  Jan., 
1846  ;  left  College  about  Jan.,  1848  ;  has  been  residing  in  Ten- 
nessee, since  leaving  College  ;  suffered  \eA'y  much  from  ill-health  ; 
sailed  for  Europe  in  July,  1852 — expecting  to  spend  one  or  two 
years  in  traveling. 

Benjamin  F.  Moore,  of  Binghamton,  N.  Y.  ;  entered  Freshman, 
Oct.,  1845  ;  left  College,  July,  1848  ;  teacher  in  Union,  N.  Y., 
1848  ;  teaching,  and  studying  law  in  or  near  Natchez,  Miss., 
1849-51 ;  admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  Autumn  of  1851  ;  and 
novi^  residing  in  Mississippi  or  New  Orleans. 

Cornelius  Sterling,  of  Bridgeport,  Ct.  ;  born  in  Bridgeport, 
Aug.  18,  1828 ;  entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845  ;  left  College, 
April,  1848  ;  engaged  in  mercantile  business  as  a  clerk,  in 
Bridgeport,  immediately  on  his  return  from  College  ;  was  com- 
pelled, by  symptoms  of  consumption,  to  abandon  his  business 
mostly  in  the  Spring  of  1850  ;  having  partially  recovered,  was 
married  to  Miss  Susan  Augusta  Hall,  of  Bridgeport,  May  12, 
1850;  during  the  Summer  of  1850,  had,  on  one  or  two  occa- 
sions, a  slight  hemorrhage  of  the  lungs,  and  in  Nov.,  1850,  was 
obliged  to  visit  the  South,  where  he  spent  the  Winter  of  1850-51 ; 
returned  to  his  native  place  in  May,  1851,  and  learned  from  his 
physician  that  his  left  lung  was  affected,  and  that  the  dreadful 
disease  was  firmly  seated  upon  him  ;  his  uncle  being  about  to 
sail  for  California,  with  sanguine  expectations  of  improvement 
from  the  voyage,  he  left  home  on  the  r2th  of  July ;  arrived  at 
San  Francisco  on  the  29th  of  October,  very  feeble,  though  not 
apparently  in  immediate  danger  ;  but  very  suddenly,  on  the  30th, 
he  began  to  grow  weaker,  arsd  after  lingering  for  a  few  hours, 
he  expired  at  twenty  minutes  before  1  o'clock,  on  the  morning 
of  Oct.  31,  1851,  at  the  age  of  23  years  and  2  months. 

In  a  letter,  written  at  the  request  of  the  Secretary,  his  father, 
Mr.  Sherwood  Sterling,  says  : 

*'  I  should  have  had  hope  in  his  death,  had  there  been  no 
further  testimony  beyond  what  he  gave  when  at  home.  But,  in 
his  journal,  he  speaks  of  his  fears  having  left  him,  of  his  hope 
in  his  Redeemer  ;  and,  in  his  conversation  with  his  friends  in 
San  Francisco,  he  said  that  he  felt  prepared  for  death,  and  that 
his  preparation  was  founded  on  his  faith  in  the  atoning  sacrifice 


38  secretary's    report. 

of  Him  who  died  for  him.  He  said  but  little  for  two  or  three 
hours  previous  to  his  death,  yet  expressing  wishes  that  his  wife 
and  parents  were  with  him,  though  not  despondingly  ;  expressing 
also  his  confidence  in  the  Savior,  and  then  thanking  his  brother 
and  friends  for  their  kindness  to  him,  after  a  short  time  he  ex- 
pired without  a  groan.     We  believe  that  he  sleeps  in  Jesus." 

La  Fayette  Twitty,  of  Rutherfordton,  N.  C. ;  entered  Freshman, 
Sept.  1845  ;  left  College  in  Jan.,  1848  ;  has  been  studying  medi- 
cine for  two  or  three  years  past ;  now  residing  in  Rutherfordton, 
but  is  expecting  to  establish  himself  as  a  physician  in  Texas. 

Andrew  Jackson  Wheeler,  of  Easton,  Ct.  ;  born  May  15,  1828  ; 
entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845 ;  left  College  on  account  of 
feeble  health,  Jan.,  1848.  He  gradually  declined  until  the  7th 
of  June,  1848,  when  he  died  in  the  midst  of  his  friends,  in  his 
native  place. 

We  quote  the  following  extract,  as  setting  forth  the  opinions 
of  those  who  knew  him  intimately,  and  the  sorrow  felt  by  all 
his  Classmates  at  his  death. 

"Wheeler  was  really  known  to  but  few  of  our  number,  and 
we  are  happy  that  we  were  ranked  among  that  few.  Exceed- 
ingly modest  in  his  demeanor,  he  yet  possessed  uncommon  self- 
reliance,  and  an  energy  indomitable.  When  once  incited  by 
difficulties  in  study,  night  and  day  bore  equal  testimony  to  his 
ardent  toil.  And  we  are  sure  that  there  was  not  one  among  us 
who  loved  study  better  for  its  own  sake — who  was  less  influ- 
enced by  all  those  flattering  considerations  which  ever  hover 
around  the  scholar.  What  would  such  energy  and  perseverance, 
united  to  strong,  clear  intellectual  powers  and  an  unerring 
judgment,  have  not  done  for  their  possessor  in  the  combat  of 
life  ?  Rut  his  kindness  of  heart,  and  his  freedom  from  selfish 
prejudices,  were  equally  evident  to  his  associates.  He  had  not 
a  single  enemy.  We  visited  his  funeral  with  nearly  sixty  of 
our  Classmates,  and  our  impressions  of  that  journey  will  never 
be  erased.  It  was  a  beautiful  day  in  June  ;  the  sky  with  its 
light  clouds,  the  earth  with  its  green  fields,  its  leafy  woods,  its 
flashing  streamlets,  its  flocks  and  herds,  seemed  all  bathed  in  glo- 
rious, God-given  life.  Life  !  often  we  thought,  on  our  way  from 
the  house   of  mourning  to  the  house   of  prayer,    that  nothing 


S  E  C  K  E  T  A  it  Y  '  S      11  E  P  O  K  T  .  39 

could  be  dead  on  such  a  day.  But  the  awful  realities  were  be- 
fore our  eyes.  As  the  remains  of  the  departed  were  placed  in 
their  narrow  home,  the  following  hymn,  composed  on  the  occa- 
sion by  two  of  his  Classmates,  was  sung  with  unaffected  feeling. 

"  Lightly,  brothers — lightly  tread 

Where  the  floweret  blooms  no  more  ; 
Where,  among  the  honored  dead. 

Sleeps  the  heart  whose  throbs  are  o'er. 
Death  has  torn  a  friend  away. 

Waked  the  sigh  and  loosed  the  tear, 
Bade^us  weep  and  sadly  pray 

O'er  a  brother's  silent  bier. 

"  Classmate,  brother,  fare  thee  well. 

In  thy  lonely  place  of  rest  ; 
Sadder  thoughts  than  words  can  tell. 

Live  in  each  surviving  breast. 
Death  has  sundered  every  tie. 

Borne  thee  to  a  distant  shore  ; 
Thou  hast  passed  away  for  aye. 

We  shall  meet  no  more,  no  more." 

The  memory  of  "that  beautiful  day  in  June"  will  never  pass 
away  from  any  of  those  who  witnessed  that  mournful  scene ; 
and  though  we  were  not  all,  like  our  Classmate,  "ranked  among 
that  few"  who  knew  him  well,  yet  as  we  meet,  from  time  to 
time,  in  years  to  come,  the  thought  of  Wheeler's  death  will 
carry  us  back  to  the  hour  when  we  stood  beside  his  open  grave, 
and  felt  that  he  had  gone  from  us  forever. 

Daniel  Ellis  Willes,  of  Franklin,  Ct. ;  entered  Sophomore,  May, 
1847,  from  the  Class  of  '48  ;  left  College  near  the  beginning  of 
Junior  year ;  entered,  but  was  not  graduated  with  the  Class  of 
1850.  Since  leaving  College,  he  has  taught  school  in  various 
places  ;  studied  law  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  and  is  now  preaching  in 
Western  New  York. 


OF  THOSE  WHO  LEFT  THE  CLASS  SOPHOMORE  YEAR. 

Leonard  Woolsey  Bacon,  of  New  Haven,  Ct. ;  entered  Fresh- 
man, Sept.,  1845  ;  left  College  in  the  Summer  of  1847  ;  after- 
ward entered  the  Class   of  1850,  and  received  the  degree  of 


40  secretary's     REPORT. 

A.  B.,  as  a  graduate  of  that  Class,  at  the  Commencement  in 
July,  1852.  After  leaving  College,  he  travelled  with  his  father. 
Rev.  Dr.  Bacon,  in  Europe  and  the  East,  in  1850-51  ;  studying 
theology  at  Andover,  Mass.,  1851-52.  Now  expecting  to  be  a 
Missionary. 

Henry  L.  Conner,  of  Natchez,  Miss. ;  entered  Freshman,  July, 
1846;  left  College,  Aug.,  1847. 

William  S.  Halsey,  of  West  Town,  N.  Y.  ;  entered  Freshman, 
Sept.,  1845  ;  left  College,  Aug.,  1847  ;  studied  medicine  in  New 
York  City  and  London;  settled  at  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  1852. 

Henry  K.  Holley,  of  Lyons,  N.  Y.  ;  entered  Freshman,  May, 
1846  ;  left  College,  Aug.,  1847  ;  after  leaving  College,  went  to 
the  South  with  his  father,  one  of  the  Members  of  Congress  from 
the  State  of  New  York,  who  was  in  feeble  health  ;  after  his 
father's  death  in  1848,  returned,  and  was  connected  with  the 
Richmond  Iron  Co.,  in  Massachusetts.  Now,  in  1852,  settled 
in  Milwaukie,  Wisconsin. 

Amos  M.  Judson,  of  Waterford,  Pa.  ;  entered  Freshman,  Sept., 
1845  ;  left  College,  July,  1847 ;  studied  law  in  Erie,  Pa.,  till 
1850 ;  editor  of  "  Erie  Chronicle,"  till  April,  1852 ;  now 
traveling  at  the  West. 

Solomon  Leche,  of  Baltimore,  Md. ;  entered  Freshman,  Sept.,  1845  ; 
left  College,  Aug.,  1847;  studied  law  at  Yale  Law  School, 
1848-49  ;  married  to  Miss  Leffingwell,  of  New  Haven,  Ct.,in 
1849 ;  received  degree  of  LL.  B.,  Aug.,  1849 ;  settled  as  a 
lawyer  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  1850-52. 

Frederick  H.  Lyon,  of  Bridgeport,  Ct. ;  entered  Freshman,  from 
the  Class  of  '48,  May,  1846  ;  left  College,  Aug.,  1847  ;  settled 
as  a  hardware  merchant  in  Bridgeport,  Ct.,  under  the  firm  of 
Holcomb  &;  Lyon,  1851-52.  Married  Miss  Hawley,  of  Bridge- 
port. 

Matthew  Hall  McAllister,  of  Savannah,  Ga.  ;  entered  Fresh- 
man, May,  1846;  left  College,  July,  1847  ;  studied  law  in  Sa- 
vannah, G-a.,  1847-49  ;  admitted  to  the  bar,  about  Jan.,  1849 ; 
sailed  for  California  early  in  1849,  and  since  that  time  has  been 


secretary's    report.  41 

settled  as  a  lawyer  in  San  Francisco,  in   partnership  with  his 
father,  1849-52. 

Louis  Manigault,  of  Charleston,  S.  C. ;  entered  Freshman,  Sept., 
1845  ;  left  College,  Aug.,  1847  ;  sailed  for  Europe  in  the  Sum- 
mer of  1847  ;  spent  two  or  three  years  in  traveling  in  Europe  ; 
since  his  return  to  this  country,  has  resided  in  South  Carolina. 

Gardiner  Spring  Plumley,  of  New  York  City  ;  entered  Fresh- 
man, Sept.,  1845  ;  left  College,  Aug.,  1847  ;  entered  and  was 
graduated  with  the  Class  of  1850  ;  teacher  of  music  in  New 
York  City,  1850-52;  studying  theology  in  Union  Theological 
Seminary,  N.  Y.  City,  1851-52  ;  married  in  1851. 

James  Waller  Poindexter,  of  Halifax,  Va.  ;  entered  Freshman, 
May,  1846;  left  College,  Oct.,  1846;  entered  and  was  graduated 
with  the  Class  of  1850  ;  studying  law  at  Harvard  Law  School, 
1850-52. 

George  M.  Ruffin,  of  Marengo  Co.,  Ala.  ;  entered  Freshman, 
Sept.,  1845  ;  left  College,  Aug.,  1847  ;  since  leaving  College, 
studied  medicine,  and  now  supposed  to  be  a  planter  in  Georgia. 

Edward  Scofield,  of  Fishkill,  N.  Y.  ;  entered  Freshman,  Sept., 
1845  ;  left  College,  on  account  of  disease  of  the  lungs,  Aug., 
1847  ;  since  then  studying  medicine,  as  his  health  would  per- 
mit, 1849-51  ;  now  settled  as  a  homoeopathic  physician,  in 
partnership  with  Dr.  A.  Hall,  of  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 

Israel  Newell  Smith,  of  Bradford,  N.  H.  ;  entered  Freshman, 
Sept.,  1845  ;  left  College,  April,  1847  ;  taught  school  in  Paris, 
Ky.,  1847-48  ;  taught  school,  and  studied  medicine  in  Bowling 
Green,  Ky.,  1848-49  ;  continued  and  completed  his  medical 
studies  in  Boston,  Mass.  ;  married  Miss  Bates,  of  North  Brook- 
field,  Mass.,  1848.  Mrs.  Smith  died  of  Cholera,  in  July,  1849, 
leaving  one  child. 

James  J.  Swilley,  of  Sumpter  Co.,  Ala.  ;  entered  Freshman,  Sept., 
1845  ;  left  College,  Aug.,  1847  ;  went  into  business  with  his 
father  immediately  upon  his  return  home,  and  is  believed  to  have 
continued  there  ever  since. 
6 


42  secretary's    report. 

Norman  C.  Thompson,  of  Perry,  Ga.  ;  entered  Freshman,  Sept., 
1845  ;  left  College,  March,  1847. 

J.  Gordon  Wallace,  of  Fredericksburg,  Va.  ;  entered  Sophomore, 
Sept.,  1846  ;  left  College,  July,  1847  ;  after  leaving  New  Ha- 
ven,  studied  medicine  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  and  now  supposed 
to  be  settled  in  Virginia. 

Horace  Spangler  Weiser,  of  York,  Pa. ;  entered  Freshman, 
Sept.,  1845  ;  left  College,  Aug.,  1847  ;  joined  the  Class  of  '50, 
in  Sept.,  1849,  but  was  obliged,  by  ill-health,  to  leave  again  in 
July,  1850  ;  studied  law  in  York,  Pa.,  1850-51  ;  admitted  to 
the  bar,  Dec,  1851  ;  settled  as  a  lawyer  in  York,  1852;  suf- 
fered from  ill-health  for  a  year  and  a  half  after  leaving  College, 
but  is  now  entirely  restored. 


OF  THOSE  WHO  LEFT  THE  CLASS  FRESHMAN  YEAR, 

John  Isaac  Ira  Adams,  of  Durham,  N.  H.,  ;  entered  Sept.,  1845  5 
left  College,  Aprils  1846  ;  entered  and  was  graduated  with  the 
Class  of  1850  ;  since  graduation,  has  taught  school ;  teaching 
in  New  Market,  N.  H.,  1851-52.  Married  in  New  Market, 
1852.  ^^ 

William  Elliott  Lee  Bassett,  of  New  Haven,  Ct.  ;  entered 
Sept.,  1845;  left  College,  April,  1846  ;  entered  and  was  gradu- 
ated with  the  Class  of  1850;  taught  school,  1850-51;  studied 
theology  in  Union  Theological  Seminary,  New  York  City, 
1851-52. 

Benjamin  L.  Benson,  of  Harlaem,  N.  Y. ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845; 
left  College,  Feb.,  1846  ;  after  leaving  College,  Mr.  B.  went  to 
Union  College,  and  adopted  the  somewhatunusual  course  of 
entering  there  as  a  Freshman,  in  Sept.,  1847  ;  since  that  time 
he  has  not  been  heard  of. 

Ethan  Ferris  Bishop,  of  Bridgeport,  Ct.  ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845; 
left  College,  June,  1846  ;  was  married  soon  after  leaving  New 
Haven,  and  settled  in  Bridgeport.  Since  then  has  been  enga- 
ged in  law  business,  and  settling  the  large  estate  of  his  father, 


secretary's    report.  43 

and  is  now  President  of  the  Naugatuck  Railroad  Company,   in 
Bridgeport. 

John  Burroughs,  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.  ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845  ;  left 
College,  April,  1846.  The  Secretary  had  the  pleasure  of  seeing 
Mr.  Burroughs,  for  a  few  moments,  on  the  30th  of  July,  1852, 
but  omitted  to  make  the  necessary  inquiries  as  to  his  place  of 
abode  and  his  occupation.  He  is  believed  to  have  been  enga- 
ged in  mercantile  business,  during  all  the  time  since  leavij^g 
College,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Edward  F.  Campbell,  of  Augusta,  Ga. ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845; 
left  College,  Feb.,  1846  ;  after  leaving  College,  studied  law  in 
Augusta,  Ga.  ;  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1851  ;  and  is  now  a  Civil 
Engineer  in  Georgia,  1852. 

Edmund  Alphonso  Capen,  of  Framingham,  Mass.  ;  entered,  Sept., 
1845  ;  left  College,  Nov.,  1845.  He  was  the  first  who  left  the 
Class.  Since  leaving  College,  he  has  resided  most  of  the  lime 
with  his  father,  in  Framingham,  Mass. 

Henry  Chase,  of  Lyndon,  Vt.  ;  entered,  March,  1846  ;  left  Col- 
lege, June,  1846  ;  entered  and  was  graduated  with  the  Class  of 
1850  ;  studied  law  at  home,  1850-51  ;  entered  Cambridge  Law 
School,  Sept.,  1851  ;  soon  after  was  compelled  to  leave  on  ac- 
count of  ill-health,  and  has  since  been  on  a  farm  in  Lyndon,  Vt. 

Richard  Lucius  Chittenden,  of  Columbus,  Ohio  ;  entered,  Sept., 
1845  ;  left  College,  Aug.,  1846  ;  entered  and  was  graduated  at 
Kenyon  College,  Ohio,  1849  ;  teaching  in  the  Deaf  and  Dumb 
Asylum,  Columbus,  Ohio,  1850-51 ;  now  studying  law  in  Mil- 
waukie,  Wisconsin. 

William  D.  Clack,  of  Marshall  Co.,  Ala.  ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845; 
left  College,  Jan,,  1846. 

James  Leonard  Corning,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  ;  entered,  Sept., 
1845  ;  left  College,  April,  1846  ;  entered  and  was  graduated  at 
the  University  of  the  City  of  New  York,  1849  ;  studied  theology 
in  Union  Theological  Seminary,  in  N.  Y.  City,  1849-50,  and 
1851-52  ;  and  at  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  1850-51  ;  preach- 
ing at  Quinebaug,  a  village  in  Woodstock,  Ct.,  1852. 


44  secretary's     REPORT. 

Samuel  W.  Davis,  of  Winthrop,  Me.  ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845  ;  left 
College,  April,  1846  ;  married  Miss  Elizabeth  Bishop,  in  1846 
or  '47  ;  has  one  or  more  children  ;  since  leaving  College,  has 
been  settled  as  a  merchant  in  Winthrop,  Me.,   1846-52. 

Nathan  Ewing,  of  Nashville,  Tenn.  ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845  ;  left 
College,  Aug.,  1846  ;  entered  but  was  not  graduated  with  the 
Class  of  1850.  After  leaving,  he  returned  to  his  home  in  Ten- 
nessee— afterwards  went  to  Mexico,  and  travelled  extensively 
in  that  country.  In  Nicaragua  he  was  attacked  by  disease,  and 
died  there — away  from  all  his  friends— in  January  of  the  present 
year. 

Charles  C.  Foote,  of  Jamestown,  N.  Y.  ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845  ; 
left  College,  April,  1846  ;  entered  and  was  graduated  at  Union 
College,  1849  ;  studied  medicine  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  1849-51  ; 
settled  as  a  homoeopathic  physician  in  New  Haven,  Ct.,  1852  ; 
married  Miss  Amelia  Jenkins,  of  New  Haven,  May,  1852. 

Carlton  Gates,  of  Yonkers,  N.  Y.  ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845  ;  left 
College,  Nov.,  1845. 

Richard  Gleason  Greene,  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.  ;  entered,  Sept., 
1845  ;  left  College,  Jan.,  1846  ;  studying  theology  at  Andover, 
Mass.,  1850-52.  ^ 

Thomas  Spencer  Hall,  of  Raymondville,  N.  Y.  ;  entered,  Sept., 
1845  ;  left  College,  April,  1846 ;  entered  but  was  not  graduated 
with  the  Class  of  1850  ;  married. 

George  Haskell,  of  Dover,  N.  H.  ;  "  was  the  eldest  son  of  Ezra 
and  Emily  Haskell,  and  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Nov.  19th, 
1825.  He  pursued  his  preparatory  studies  mostly  with  his 
father,  and  entered  College  at  New  Haven,  Oct.  1,  1845.  After 
about  two  terms,  his  health  compelled  him  to  leave  for  a  more 
active  life.  He  soon  entered  a  dry  goods  importing  house  in 
Boston,  where  he  remained  till  the  fall  of  1849.  In  November 
of  the  same  year,  he  took  passage  on  board  ship  Reindeer,  for 
San  Francisco,  where  he  arrived,  after  a  short  passage.  He 
spent  several  months  in  making  observations  and  ascertaining 
what  business  was  most  promising.     He  had   made  no  pcrma- 


secretary'sreport.  45 

..out  fcirrangements,  when,  about  the  last  of  October,  1850,  he 
was  seized  with  cholera,  at  Sacramento  City,  and  died  Nov.  1st, 
after  one  week's  illness.  He  was  well  attended,  and,  after  the 
first,  suffered  but  little.  He  always  remembered  his  Class,  and 
spoke  of  his  Classmates  with  a  great  deal  of  interest." 

We  quote  the  above  account  of  our  Classmate's  life  and  death 
from  a  letter  written  by  his  brother,  Henry  M.  Haskell. 

William  Richardson  High,  of  Sumpterville,  Ala. ;  entered,  Sept., 
1845  ;  left  College,  Feb.,  1846  ;  married  in  1846  ;  and  since 
that  time  settled  in  his  native  place. 

Edward  D.  C.  Jenkins,  of  Edisto  Island,  S.  C.  ;  entered,  Sept., 
1845  ;  left  College,  April,   1846. 

Samuel  William  Johnson,  of  New  York  City ;  entered,  Sept., 
1845  ;  left  College,  April,  1846 ;  entered  and  was  graduated  at 
Princeton,  1849  ;  studied  law  at  Cambridge  Law  School,  1849- 
51  ;  settled  as  a  lawyer  in  New  York  City,  1852. 

D.  Osborn  Keeler,  of  Chatauque  Co.,  N.  Y. ;  entered,  May,  1846  ; 
left  College,  Aug.,  1846,  though  his  name  is  found  on  the  Cat- 
alogue of  Sophomore  year. 

Robert  C.  King,  of  Port  Gibson,  Miss. ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845  ;  left 
College,  April,  1846. 

Richard  Lamb,  of  Norfolk,  Va. ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845  ;  left  Col- 
lege, April,  1846;  entered  and  was  graduated  with  the  Class  of 
1850  ;  studying  medicine  in  New  York  City  and  Philadelphia, 
1850-52. 

[Oct.  12,  1852. — Just  as  this  report  is  about  to  be  sent  forth  to 
those  for  whom  it  has  an  especial  interest,  we  are  reminded  once 
more  of  the  nearness  of  the  eternal  world,  by  the  death  of  our 
former  Classmate,  Lamb.  He  died  at  his  home  in  Norfolk,  Va., 
on  Sunday,  Oct.  3,  1852,  after  a  severe  sickness  of  nine  weeks' 
duration.  Many  of  those  whose  names  are  on  the  pages  of  this 
book,  will  remember  him  as  he  was  during  our  Freshman  year ; 
many  others  will  think  of  him  as  a  companion  of  our  College 
life,  even  after  he  had  united  himself  with  the  Class  below  us ; 
and  all  will  rejoice  to  hear  that  he  died  in  the  Christian's  faith, 
and  will  follow  him  in  thought  to  the  higher  sphere,  where  we 


46  SECRETARYS      REPORT. 

hope  he  is  now  engaged  in  the  nobler  services  of  those  who 
have  been  admitted  to  the  Church  above.  We  would  join  our 
sympathies  with  those  of  his  Classmates  of  1850,  for  the  friends 
who  are  now  mourning  his  loss  with  a  sorrow  which  no  stranger 
can  understand.] 

Henry  Charles  Leavenworth,  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y.  ;  entered, 
Sept-,  1845  ;  left  College,  July,  1846 ;  studied  law  near  Syra- 
cuse, N.  Y.  ;  now  settled  as  a  lawyer  in  Syracuse,  and  married. 

Nathan  Appleton  Lee,  of  Charleston,  S.  C.  ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845  ; 
left  College,  April,  1846  ;  entered  and  was  graduated  with  the 
Class  of  1850  ;  studied  law  at  Yale  Law  School,  1850-52  ;  re- 
ceived degree  of  LL.  B.,  July  29,  1852. 

Nehemiah  Millard,  of  Delhi,  N.  Y.  ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845  ;  left 
College,  Jan.,  1846  ;  entered  Union  College  and  was  graduated 
there  in  1848.  Since  graduating,  has  studied  law,  and  is  now 
settled  as  a  lawyer  in  Marquette,  Marquette  Co.,  Wisconsin,  1852. 

Peter  Neff,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  entered,  Sept.,  1845;  left  Col- 
lege, Aug.,  1846  ;  entered  and  was  graduated  at  Kenyon  Col- 
lege, Ohio,  in  1849.  Studying  theology  at  the  Seminary  at 
Gambler,  Ohio,  1849-52. 

\ 
Frederick  Matthew  Peck,  of  Webster,  Mass.  ;  entered,  Sept., 

1845  ;  left  College,  April,  1846  ;  entered  Williams  College  but 
did  not  graduate ;  after  leaving  College,  studied  law  in  Killing- 
ly,  Ct.  ;  editor  of  "  Windham  County  Telegraph,"  West  Kil- 
lingly,  Ct.,  1851  till  April,  1852  ;  now  about  establishing  him- 
self in  Worcester,  Mass.     Married  in  1852. 

S.  Ormsby  Rhea,  of  Clinton,  La.  ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845;  left  Col- 
lege, April,  1846. 

Erastus  Lathrop  Ripley,  of  Middlebury,  Vt.  ;  entered,  Sept., 
1845  ;  left  College,  June,  1846  ;  entered  and  was  graduated 
with  the  Class  of  1850  ;  engaged  in  mercantile  business  in  New 
York  City,  1850-52  ;  married  Miss  Isabel,  of  Guilford,  Ct.,  July 
7,  1850  ;  one  child,  born  Dec,  1850. 

Thomas  Cook  Silliman,  of  Chester,  Ct.  ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845; 


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left  College,  Jan.,  1846  ;  entered  the  Class  of  1850,  but  did  not 
graduate. 

Obadiah  B.  Tebbs,  of  Piatt  Co.,  Mo.  ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845  ;  left 
College,  July,  1846.  Nothing  has  been  heard  from  Tebbs  since 
his  farewell  speech  on  the  steamboat  wharf  in  New  Haven, 
which  all  his  Classmates,  who  were  present,  will  doubtless  re- 
member.    The  Secretary,  at  least,  and,  we  presume,   all  the 

i  members  of  his  division,  would  be  glad  to  see  him  enter  the 
Freshman  Recitation  Room  once  more,  having  the  same  benign 
appearance  which  he  wore  after  his  unfortunate  interview  with 
Chase. 

Charles  Thompson,  of  Sudbury,  Mass.  ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845;  left 
College,  Nov.,  1845  ;  since  leaving  College  has  taught  school 
for  one  or  two  years;  studying  law  in  the  office  of  Joseph  Cutler, 
Esq.,  Boston,  1851-52. 

Isaac  V/in  Etten,  of  Port  Jervis,  N.  Y.  ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845  ; 
left  College,  April,  1846  ;  entered  and  was  graduated  at  Union 
College,  in  the  Class  of  1849. 

William  R.  Waring,  of  Savannah,  Ga.  ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845; 
left  College,  April,  1846  ;  was  graduated  at  Athens  College,  Ga., 
1849  ;  since  leaving  College,  studied  medicine  in  Philadelphia. 

Thomas  G.  Woodward,  of  New  Haven,  Ct.  ;  entered,  Sept.,  1845  ; 
left  College,  Dec,  1845  ;  went  to  West  Point  Academy,  Sept., 
1846  J  since  Dec,  1846,  has  been  in  parts  unknown. 


In  concluding  the  report  of  the  past  three  years,  the  Secretary 
would  present  the  following  summary  of  the  Statistics  of  the  Class. 

The  whole  number  of  those  who  were  connected  with  the  Class, 
during  its  Collegiate  course,  was  162.  Of  these,  37  left  the  Class 
during  Freshman  year,  18  during  Sophomore  year,  10  during  Junior 
year,  and  3  during  Senior  year — making  in  all  68 — and  leaving  94 


48  secretary's    report. 

as  the  number  who  took  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  in  August, 
1849.  Of  this  94,  only  56  entered  at  the  beginning  of  Freshman 
year,  being  but  one  more  than  one  half  of  those  who  entered  at  that 
time.  In  the  enumerations  which  follow,  will  be  included,  in  the 
first  place,  a  summation  of  the  facts  respecting  the  graduated  mem- 
bers of  the  Class  alone — and  afterwards  a  few  words  will  be  offered, 
setting  forth,  so  far  as  the  information  contained  in  the  preceding 
pages  will  allow,  the  occupations,  &;c.,  of  those  who  went  out  from 
us  at  different  periods  of  our  College  life. 

Of  the  graduated  members  of  the  Class,  then,  as  has  been  said,  fifty- 
six  entered  at  the  very  commencement  of  our  course,  viz.  :  Messrs. 
Adams,  H.  Barnard,  Benedict,  Bishop,  Bissell,  Bourne,  Bradley, 
Brandegee,  Buck,  Bull,  Came,  Carey,  W.  B.  Clark,  Durkee,  Dwight, 
Eliot,  Fenn,  Fisk,  Foote,  Galpin,  Green,  Hall,  Harrison,  Haskell, 
Henson,  Hill,  Hubbard,  Hurlbut,  Hutchins,  Lee,  Lockwood,  Lyon, 
Merriman,  Miles,  Mitchell,  Moore,  Murray,  Oakey,  Peters,  Rich- 
ards, Richardson,  Robinson,  Rockwell,  Rowell,  Skinner,  Starr, 
Upson,  Walker,  Ward,  Waties,  Weiser,  J.  L.  Willard,  J.  Wil- 
lard,  Wilson,  Wodell,  and  Woodruff.  Eight  entered  during  Fresh- 
man year,  but  after  the  publication  of  the  College  catalogue,  viz. : 
Messrs.  Bannan,  Chandler,  Colegrove,  Franklin,  Hough,  Poole,  J. 
L.  Smith,  and  Talbot.  Twenty-one  entered  during  Sophomore  year  : 
Messrs.  Arnold,  Atkins,  Atlee,  Baer,  R.  P.  Barnard,  Barnes,  Beecher, 
Brent,  Couper,  Finch,  Goodrich,  Gordon,  Hanes,  Hollister,  Jessup, 
Kirby,  Morris,  North,  Peck,  Shearon,  and  Waring.  Six  entered 
during  Junior  year:  Messrs.  Bronson,  W.  L.  Clark,  Douglas,  Ford, 
Metcalfe,  and  E.  P.  Smith.  Three  joined  the  Class  at  the  beginning 
of  Senior  year  :   Messrs.  Hittell,  T.  H.  Swope,  and  W.  C.  Swope. 

Twenty  of  the  Class  have  been  married,  viz.  :  Messrs.  R.  P. 
Barnard,  Beecher,  Benedict,  Bishop,  Carey,  Gordon,  Henson,  Hub- 
bard, Lyon,  Merriman,  Metcalfe,  Morris,  Peck,  Rowell,  Shearon, 
Starr,  Upson,  Waring,  Wilson,  and  Woodruff.  There  are  now 
seven  children  belonging  to  the  Class,  of  whom  three  are  sons,  three 
daughters,  and  one  not  reported. 

In  respect  to  professions,  &c.,  thirty-four  have  entered  the  law, 
viz. :  Messrs.  Bannan,  Bradley,  Brandegee,  Brent,  W.  L.  Clark,  Cole- 
grove,  Durkee,  Finch,  Foote,  Galpin,  Gordon,  Green,  Hane||  Henson, 
Hittell,  Jessup,  Lyon,  Oakey,  Waring,  Weiser,  Wilson,  Wodell, — H. 
Barnard,  Came,  Couper,  Douglas,  Hough,  Moore,  Murray,  North, 


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Peters,  Robinson,  W.  C.  Swope,  and  Ward.  Twenty-tWo  have 
commenced  or  completed  the  usual  course  of  theological  study,  viz  : 
Messrs.  Bissell,  Buck,  Bull,  Carey,  W.  B.  Clark,  Fisk,  Haskell, 
Hutching,  Lee,  Morris,  Peck,  Skinner,  Talbot,  Walker,  J.  L.  Wil- 
lard — Bourne,  Dwight,  Fenn,  Hurlbut,  Miles,  J.  Willard  and  Woodruff. 
Ten  have  studied  medicine,  viz. :  Messrs.  Benedict,  Richards,  RoWell — 
Arnold,  Atlee,  Eliot,  Ford,  Goodrich,  J.  L.  Smith,  and  T*  H*  Swope. 
Seven  are  teachers,  viz.  :  Messrs.  Atkins,  Baer,  Barnes,  Beecher, 
Bronson,  Hollister,  and  E.  P*  Smith.  Seven  are  farmers  or  planters, 
viz. :  Messrs.  Kirby,  Lockwood,  Merriman,  Metcalfe,  Richardson, 
Shearon,  and  Upson.  Six  are  in  mercantile  or  other  business,  viz.  ; 
Messrs.  R.  P.  Barnard,  Bishop,  Chandler,  Hubbard,  Mitchell,  and 
Starr.  Two  civil  engineers  :  Messrs.  Hill  and  Waties.  One  editor: 
Mr.  Harrison.  One  Librarian  of  a  Public  Library  j  Mr.  Poole. 
One  on  the  United  States  Coast  Survey :  Mr.  Rockwell.  One  tra- 
veling, and  engaged  in  general  study:  Mr.  Hall.  Two  unknown, 
though  they  are  both  probably  at  present  farmers  :  Messrs.  Adams 
and  Franklin.  Two  more  are  intending  to  study  for  the  ministry  : 
Messrs.  Bronson  and  E.  P.  Smith  ;  and  three  for  the  law  J  Messrs. 
Atkins,  Hall,  and  Hollister. 

The  first  of  all  the  Class  who  was  married,  was  Woodruffs— mar- 
ried Feb.  10,  1849.  The  first  child  was  born  June  27,  1850— Dora 
Blanche  Henson  ;  the  first  son  was  born  July  16j  1851— George 
Steinbergen  Gordon.  The  first  of  those  studying  for  the  ministry 
who  has  been  settled,  and,  thus  far,  the  only  one,  is  Morris,  settled  in 
May,  1852.  Colegrove  was  the  first  who  was  admitted  to  the  bar, 
Aug.  15,  1850.  Colegrove  and  Finch,  the  first  who  were  settled  in 
the  law,  May,  1851.  Benedict,  the  first  who  received  the  degree  of 
M.  D.,  graduating  at  Yale  Medical  School,  Jan.,  1851  ;  and  also  the 
first  who  was  settled  as  a  physician,  early  in  1851.  As  above  stated, 
only  one  of  those  pursuing  theological  studies,  has  as  yet  been 
settled,  though  fifteen  (the  first  fifteen  in  the  list  given  above  of  those 
in  this  profession)  are  licensed  to  preach.  In  the  law,  twenty-two 
(the  first  twenty-two  in  the  list  given  above)  are  already  settled  ;  and 
in  medicine,  three  (the  first  three  in  the  list  given  above)  are  now 
established  in  business. 

Two  members  of  the  Class  are  now  traveling  in  Europe,  Hall 
and  Douglas.     Four  are  now  Tutors  in  Yale  College,  Fisk,  Dwight, 


50  secretary's     report. 

Hurlbut,  and  Miles.     Thirty-eight  have  been  engaged  in  teaching, 
at  some  time  since  graduating. 

In  respect  to  the  time  of  birth — one  was  born  in  1831  ;  eleven  in 
1830;  thirteen  in  1829;  fifteen  in  1828;  seventeen  in  1827;  six  in 
1826  ;  thirteen  in  1825  ;  seven  in  1824 ;  one  in  1823  ;  four  in  1822  ; 
three  in  1821  ;  one  in  1816,  and  two  unknown.  The  average  age  of 
the  Class,  at  graduation,  was  twenty-two  years  and  four  months,  nearly. 

Twenty-three  members  are  now  residing  in  Connecticut,  twenty- 
two  in  New  York,  seven  in  Massachusetts,  six  in  Pennsylvania,  six 
in  Ohio,  four  in  Georgia,  four  in  Alabama,  three  in  Kentucky,  three 
in  Maryland,  three  in  Maine,  two  in  New  Hampshire,  two  in  Vir- 
ginia, two  in  Tennessee,  two  in  Mississippi,  one  in  Texas,  one  in 
Arkansas,  one  in  California,  and  two  in  Europe. 

It  may  not  be  uninteresting  to  state,  also,  in  closing  this  summary, 
in  respect  to  the  graduates,  that  thirty-nine  received  the  degree  of 
M.  A.,  at  the  recent  Commencement,  July  29,  1852 — Messrs.  Arnold, 
Atkins,  Atlee,  Baer,  Bannan,  H.  Barnard,  Beecher,  Benedict,  Bishop, 
Brent,  Chandler,  W.  B.  Clark,  D wight,  Eliot,  Fenn,  Fisk,  Goodrich, 
Gordon,  Henson,  Hollister,  Hough,  Hurlbut,  Jessup,  Kirby,  Lee, 
Lockwood,  Merriman,  Moore,  Morris,  North,  Peck,  Peters,  Poole, 
Talbot,  Walker,  Ward,  Waring,  J.  L.  Willard,  and  Woodruff. 


The  Secretary,  on  account  of  the  limited  time  allowed,  and  the 
pressure  of  his  other  duties  during  the  vacation,  has  been  able  to 
collect  the  facts  with  regard  to  but  fifty-six  of  those  members  of  the 
Class  who  did  not  graduate,  leaving  twelve  concerning  whom  no 
information  has  been  obtained.  This  portion  of  the  report,  however, 
is  believed  to  be  more  full  and  definite  than  is  usual  in  these  statis- 
tical accounts.  Of  those  whose  history  is  presented  in  the  preceding 
pages,  nine  took  their  first  degree  with  the  Class  of  1850,  of  Yale 
College,  and  eight  graduated  at  other  Colleges  ;  five  have  died — two, 
A.  J.  Douglass  and  Wheeler,  before  our  graduation ;  and  three, 
Ewing,  Haskell,  and  Sterling,  since  that  time.  Fourteen  have  been 
married.  Thirty-three  have  entered  a  professional  life,  of  whom 
eight  have  studied  for  the  ministry,  sixteen  for  the  law,  and  nine  for 
the  medical  profession.  Most  of  the  others  are  engaged  in  mercan- 
tile or  agricultural  pur.suits. 


S      RE  PO  RT.  51 

Thus,  then,  I  bring  my  labors  to  a  close,  trusting  that  this  report 
may  be  acceptable  to  all  my  Classmates,  and  may  serve  to  call  up  in 
the  mind  of  each  one,  as  he  reads  its  pages,  renewed  and  pleasant 
memories  of  the  Class  of  1849.  Mistakes  may  doubtless  be  found 
by  those  who  examine  it  with  care,  and,  perchance,  some  things  may 
have  been  inserted  which  will  meet  the  censure  of  many  under  whose 
notice  it  may  fall,  and  other  things  may  have  been  omitted,  which 
would  have  rendered  it  more  interesting  to  the  Class.  If  so,  all  I 
can  say,  is,  that  "  I  am  sorry  for  it ;"  and  if  any  or  all  of  those  for 
whose  especial  benefit  it  has  been  prepared,  are  dissatisfied  with  any 
or  every  portion  of  it,  I  am  willing  now,  or  whenever  such  a  state  of 
feeling  shall  be  made  known  to  me,  to  deliver  over  the  office  which 
I  have  held  since  we  left  College,  to  some  other  more  competent  and 
worthy  person — with  the  assurance,  however,  that  that  person,  after 
discharging  the  duties  assigned  to  him,  for  a  period  of  three  or  four 
years,  and  after  having  gone  through  with  a  labor  like  that  which 
has  occupied  so  large  a  portion  of  my  time  since  April  last,  will 
have  the  charity  for  me  which  will  "cover  a  multitude  of  sins." 

If  any  inaccurate  statements  are  discovered,  it  is  desired  that 
immediate  information  concerning  them  should  be  sent  to  the  Secre- 
tary ;  and,  also,  in  the  years  that  intervene  between  this  time  and 
our  decennial  meeting,  all  the  members  of  the  Class,  without  excep- 
tion, are  requested  to  forward  to  the  Secretary  all  such  intelligence 
in  respect  to  themselves,  as  may  be  of  especial  interest  to  the  Class. 

With  the  hope  that  we  may  be  able  to  meet  once  more  in  1859, 
and  that  our  number  may  long  be,  as  it  has  been,  unvisited  by  death, 
I  would  respectfully  submit  this  report  to  the  Class  of  1849. 

TIMOTHY  DWIGHT, 

Secretary  of  the  Class  o/*  '49, 
Yale  College,  Sept.  11,  1852. 


